One BBC report last year spoke about an incident, where a woman was doing some ironing when her mother told her about a friend being killed in a Thailand road accident. She was not using her phone at the time. However, when she opened the phone's search engine, the name of her friend and the words ‘motorbike accident Thailand’ popped up. It could be that she had looked up something in the interim and then forgotten. But it also occurred to her that her phone may have been listening to her – literally!
The BBC reporter then asked a couple of specialists to try and find a way to listen in on conversations made close to a phone anywhere in the world. It was demonstrated, that is actually quite simple! Tough the terms and conditions of apps require that there should be no such tracking tools in apps, it is hard to say how scrupulous companies are about observing these rules.
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