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Your phone isn't secretly listening to you, but the truth is more disturbing

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369 points zeech | 1 comments | 26 Apr 25 00:26 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | source
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limbero ◴[26 Apr 25 17:01 UTC] No.43805260[source]▶
This article reminds me of this excellent tongue-in-cheek piece of writing by Jonathan Zeller in McSweeney's:

Calm Down—Your Phone Isn’t Listening to Your Conversations. It’s Just Tracking Everything You Type, Every App You Use, Every Website You Visit, and Everywhere You Go in the Physical World

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/calm-down-your-phone-isn...

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Spooky23 ◴[26 Apr 25 20:09 UTC] No.43806692[source]▶
There is so much time spent “debunking” audio recordings being shared with various entities it makes me more suspicious.

Just like Facebook’s “we never sell your data (we just stalk you and sell ads using your data)”. I’m sure there’s a similar weasel excuse… “we never listen to your audio (but we do analyze it to improve quality assurance)”

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LgWoodenBadger ◴[26 Apr 25 22:11 UTC] No.43807661[source]▶
It’s similar with the TSA facial recognition photos. “We delete your photo immediately” but what they don’t say is that they don’t delete the biometrics from that photo.
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bsimpson ◴[26 Apr 25 22:14 UTC] No.43807689[source]▶
It's a crime that were compelled to concede our 4th Amendment rights in order to travel.
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caminanteblanco ◴[27 Apr 25 04:52 UTC] No.43809508[source]▶
It literally says right on the facial recognition sign that you're free to opt out, just let the TSA employee know
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1. dmwilcox ◴[27 Apr 25 19:54 UTC] No.43814622[source]▶
Yup,people are really good about it in my experience too. I just stand off to the side of the camera, and say "no biometrics please". They take a minute to check my documents and it's done. Try it.

I trust the TSA agents brain to not get hacked in the next 24 hours, a database run by them, not so much.