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'But before I do, he immediately looks at my screen and says 'Mom that's it!'' 'I am getting ready to type into the search Scorpios Rex,' she said. So, this mom from Cincinnati's Anderson Township community decided to look it up.

'One day my son came up to me and said, 'Mom, I want a Scorpios Rex for my birthday,'' she said.

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Still freaked out about all this? Check out our series Internet Hygiene for information on protecting yourself online.Did you ever get the feeling your phone or other smart device is listening to what you say? Maybe you've seen ads for products you were talking about, and swore you never did a Google search for them.Ĭhristie Burnett is pretty sure her iPhone is eavesdropping. It’s not ideal, but I don’t think it poses an immediate threat to most people.” Only instead of prime time audiences, they’re now tracking web-browsing habits. “It’s just an extension from what advertising used to be on television,” says Peter. If you’re like everyone else, living a really normal life, and talking to your friends about flying to Japan, then it’s really not that different to advertisers looking at your browsing history. But, according to Peter at least, it’s not something most people should be scared of.īecause unless you’re a journalist, a lawyer, or have some kind of role with sensitive information, the access of your data is only really going to advertisers.

So yes, our phones are listening to us and anything we say around our phones could potentially be used against us. As most tech companies are based in the US, the NSA or perhaps the CIA can potentially have your information disclosed to them, whether it’s legal in your home country or not. Peter went on to say that just because tech companies value our data, it doesn’t keep it safe from governmental agencies. If they let that information out into the wild, they’ll lose that exclusive access to it, so they’re going to try to keep it as secret as possible. “Rather than saying here’s a list of people who followed your demographic, they say Why don’t you give me some money, and I’ll make that demographic or those who are interested in this will see it. But as we all know, advertisers don’t need our data for us to see their ads. Peter told me that although no data is guaranteed to be safe for perpetuity, he assured me that in 2018 no company is selling their data directly to advertisers. Then I carefully monitored the sponsored posts on Facebook for any changes. Phrases like I’m thinking about going back to uni and I need some cheap shirts for work. Twice a day for five days, I tried saying a bunch of phrases that could theoretically be used as triggers. With this in mind, I decided to try an experiment. It makes good sense from a marketing standpoint, and their end-use agreements and the law both allow it, so I would assume they’re doing it, but there’s no way to be sure.” “Really, there’s no reason they wouldn’t be. “Seeing Google are open about it, I would personally assume the other companies are doing the same.” Peter tells me. Although, the key word here is “could,” because although the technology is there, companies like Facebook vehemently deny listening to our conversations. An ordinary conversation with a friend about needing a new pair of jeans could be enough to activate it. He goes on to explain that apps like Facebook or Instagram could have thousands of triggers.

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