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Iphone constantly listening to you? This story makes it seem like it is.
605 sats \ 11 comments \ @Signal312 10h security
Some friends of mine told mine told me a story recently.
They were on a very long, unexpectedly difficult hike, and had gotten off trail. They knew where they were but it was VERY tough going, much steeper than expected.
Anyway, the trail was very difficult, and a high-strung member of the group was constantly narrating out loud the events as they were occurring - like "oh my gosh, this is so hard, we're going to fall and die". Or when somebody slipped and fell (minor fall), this person said something like "OMG, is he dead?" Stuff like that.
It was supposed to be a 4 hour hike, but ended up taking about 13 hours, AND a loved one called the search and rescue team. The search and rescue team met them as they were getting close to the logging road where their car was. All was okay, they were just tired, hungry, and cold.
But here's what they heard from the search and rescue team - there had been DOZENS of alerts that reached them, including their location. So, even though none of the hikers was actively trying to contact search and rescue, the iphone had been doing that for them, including their location.
They were shocked. I was shocked, too. So your conversation is constantly being monitored, and anything concerning is sent to the emergency pipeline?
Turns out that the emergency services actually only responded when a real person called them. But they have logs of large portions of their conversation on the hike.
Weird, huh? Anyone heard of this?
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50 sats \ 0 replies \ @sox 9h
Depends, iirc if they had an Apple Watch, it does all these things automatically if it recognizes a fall.
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39 sats \ 5 replies \ @siggy47 9h
I'm the only non apple user in my family. Ads are always popping up on an iPad or iPhone about something we were just talking about. At first I thought I was being a conspiracy theorist, but it happens too often to be coincidence.
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70 sats \ 2 replies \ @guerratotal 8h
You made me remember once a while back, we were at the table at home and we were talking about an amusement park that my wife had seen a video of an accident or something like that... and not even 10 minutes had passed when I put YouTube on the TV, the first thing that came up was an ad for an amusement park near here in the city... hahahahaha
It must have been my SMSUNG cell phone (Android) because what's synced to the TV is my Google account
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57 sats \ 1 reply \ @siggy47 8h
I'm sure google is guilty too
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36 sats \ 0 replies \ @guerratotal 8h
Of course, just like why the hell would a banking app need access to your cell phone's microphone if not to spam you with what it hears about you?
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41 sats \ 1 reply \ @Signal312 OP 8h
I'd love to know more about that specific event - people getting ads for thing that they were just talking about. I hear people saying the same thing quite a bit.
I'm inclined to think that they perhaps ARE listening to you, specifically targeting terms that could be served up in an ad, and then actually serving up the ad.
But are they also just searching online for these potential ad targets, and then of course they're going to be served up the ad?
Anyone have some evidence, for or against this?
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34 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 7h
I don't. It's just a sense I get.
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52 sats \ 2 replies \ @justin_shocknet 9h
Yes and your soft-keyboard is logged too, its not your device, it's a sigint thinclient.
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5 sats \ 1 reply \ @Signal312 OP 7h
What's a sigint thinclient?
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34 sats \ 0 replies \ @justin_shocknet 5h
sigint = signals intelligence, gleaning information over comms channels
thinclient = "a computer that uses resources housed inside a central server"
when you use one of these you're not using a device you own, it's like a company issued computer at your work with full telemetry... only you're not an employee you're just funneling information up to the IC apparatus that controls these state-scale enterprises
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @perscrutador 1h
Everyone has a story like this in relation to devices, always listening and when it is because it is recurrent, it is no longer a myth. The device may not have just heard but seen elements that it understands as dangerous, as mentioned before about the Apple Watch. Still, people are scared by this and are not scared and destroy their privacy through social networks and all kinds of online interactions, they are training systems that will be used to control them even more, to end the minimum they have. That should be scary. Even so, your report is very welcome.
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