DrJBHL

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Jim...you'd have to open a browser to see this happen, if indeed it happens.

Avatar137...I can't explain how that might happen unless there are wifi channels the Police can broadcast over which you can't disable on your old iPhone?

I guess we can hope that's a one-way channel. 

Yeah, I know. That's why I said I mostly only use my phone as a phone.

I do actually open Chrome occasionally, maybe once or twice a month. Haven't seen any ads.

I kinda hope my smart phone listens to me....cos if it doesn't it won't know what to pass on to the other person on the end of 'the phone line'.

Cos if that's the case I just as well could leave it off...and talk to myself...

You know what that is the first sign of, talking to yourself.... and being you have an insanity that's well entrenched, from long, long ago, we're well beyond the 1st, 2nd and 3rd signs and into those that haven't been so well documented as yet

Yup, Freud and his lot would have been perplexed by your brand of lunacy.  They should have shifted focus from Lewis Caroll before it went viral, me thinks.

No reason to apologize at all, Avatar137.

2of3 can you send me one of those tinfoil hats, I've lost mine!!!

Quoting Borg999,

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The truth is that Apple is listening to you, and this time, they're not thinking about privacy.

I doubt that it's just Apple.  Given to corporate clamour to collect everybody's last dollar, it's reasonable to think that Microsoft and others are doing it as well.  I mean, why wouldn't manufacturers and telcos eavesdrop to collar more sales, corral more bucks?

If one uses their phone primarily as a phone, which I do - and as a MP# player sometimes - I think... well hope that you're reasonably safe, given that it's an offence to tap/listen into phone conversations without a warrant.   I think it's when users turn to various apps as a means of communication, like through Facebook and the various messenger apps, is when the big corporates know they can eavesdrop with impunity.... after all those communications are not covered by the same kind of legislation as phone communications are.

Yup: "Look, we'll give you all these wonderful new apps on your phone that will do all sorts of wonderful things for you... what you don't know is that you'll sacrifice your privacy and security by using them."

I think that about covers it.

The barrier on listening to everyone 24/7 is that it's a colossal waste of bandwidth and monitoring resources, never mind that it's illegal.  The cost probably far outweighs any monetary pick me up they'd get from selling whatever information they managed to glean before someone discovered the invasion and the company went bankrupt from the resulting class action lawsuit while the executives all went to prison.

Are they data mining the messaging service?  Quite possible.  If someone's going to hear you having sex because your phone is in the same room, it's either the NSA doing it, or there's a major criminal case in someone's future.

Substantial Resources? A few servers pulling key words and matching it with an advertiser. That's fairly low cost compared to potential ad revenue, -  and executives only go to prison in extreme circumstances. Most are able to hide behind the corporate veil, or at worst go to a minimum security prison for 6 months. And the corp might pay a de-minimis fine and write it off as a cost of doing business. Then do it again in 6 months.