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Marketer sparks panic with claims it uses smart devices to eavesdrop on people(arstechnica.com)

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elucubra@kbin.social
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My sister snd I had a conversation in a terrace about flower seeds to gift my mother. Neither has google assitant or any other voice search app acrivated. We both started getting seed ads. Pretty damning

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onion@feddit.de
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Do you know your sister didn’t search for seeds?

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sennish@lemm.ee
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Right. It only takes one opsec breach.

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Eggyhead@kbin.social
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It’s rather Orwellian to me that this kind of logic counts as justification.

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hemmes@lemmy.world
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It’s not justification, it’s about understanding the semantics of what’s technically happening.

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