I changed the title from “Spying” to “Eavesdropping” because the article actually directly supports that it is “spying” on you, just not listening.

  • ch00f@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    It would cost like $1k for some YouTuber to buy a few burner android phones, slap prepaid sims in them, and then talk to them about their love of Hyundai and protein powder. It would blow the whole lid off whatever conspiracy were all just resigning ourselves to.

    Such an easy thing to test and yet there’s zero evidence that it’s happening. At least the way people assume.

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      7 hours ago

      How would it even work? You would need to transmit and process mind boggling levels of data, in almost real time according to some of these stories.