Have you ever had a conversation with a friend and suddenly received targeted ads the next day based on your chat? It actually turns out that your phone isn t listening to you because it doesn t need to.
Privacy Tech Worker Explains How Ads Appear To Know Some Mildly Specific Details About Everyone s Lives
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Apps Are Not Listening To You : Privacy Tech Worker Explains How Ads Know Things They Seemingly Shouldn t
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Your Social Media Apps are Not Listening to You : Tech Worker Explains Data Privacy in Viral Twitter Thread
On 5/26/21 at 12:56 PM EDT
Privacy tech worker Robert G. Reeve took to Twitter on Tuesday to share that he d been served an ad for a brand of toothpaste his mother uses. Coincidence? Definitely not.
Reeve had just returned from a weeklong stay at her home. But before people could use this as yet another example of phones listening in on conversations, Reeve put together a now-viral Twitter thread explaining how digital ads really work. I m back from a week at my mom s house and now I m getting ads for her toothpaste brand, the brand I ve been putting in my mouth for a week, he tweeted. We never talked about this brand or googled it or anything like that. As a privacy tech worker, let me explain why this is happening.