Is your phone spying on you

MudPup545
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1/1/2018 9:30am
True story. Wife and I were having our morning coffee and talking about a possible vacation to Disney World. You guessed it, we are now getting emails from Disney. Creepy stuff.
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1/1/2018 11:17am
Was talking on the phone to my mom about getting a generac generator. She had lost power due to a transformer blowing and said she wished she had one and I agreed it would be nice for hurricanes. Later that day, ads from generac on FB and Instagram.
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1/1/2018 11:21am
Apple’s instructions to shutdown Siri and Dictation on their devices:

When you use Siri and Dictation the things you say and dictate will be recorded and sent to Apple to process your requests. Your device will also send Apple other information, such as your name and nickname; the names, nicknames, and relationship with you (e.g., “my dad”) of your contacts, song names in your collection, HomeKit-enabled devices in your home (e.g., “living room lights”), the names of your photo albums, the names of Apps installed on your device (collectively, your “User Data”). All of this data is used to help Siri and Dictation on your iOS device and any paired Apple Watch understand you better and recognize what you say. It is not linked to other data that Apple may have from your use of other Apple services.

If you have Location Services turned on, the location of your device at the time you make a request will also be sent to Apple to help Siri and Dictation improve the accuracy of its response to your requests. You may choose to turn off Location Services for Siri. To do so, open Settings on your iOS device, tap Privacy, tap Location Services, tap Siri & Dictation and select “Never”.

If you choose to allow third party Apps to integrate with Siri, some data from these Apps may be sent to Apple to help Siri understand your request, and portions of your request will be shared with the App to help provide a response or take an action (e.g., make a reservation at a restaurant or book a ride). If you choose to allow Apps to use Siri for transcription, the voice data to be transcribed may be sent to Apple. You may control which Apps can integrate with Siri at any time under Siri Settings.

You may choose to turn off Siri or Dictation at any time. To turn off Siri, open Settings on your iOS device, tap Siri, and slide the Siri switch to “off”. To turn off Dictation, open Settings, tap General, tap Keyboard, and slide the Enable Dictation switch to “off”.  If you turn off both Siri and Dictation, Apple will delete your User Data, as well as your recent voice input data. Older voice input data that has been disassociated from you may be retained for a period of time to generally improve Siri, Dictation and dictation functionality in other Apple products and services. This voice input data may include audio files and transcripts of what you said, related diagnostic data, such as hardware and operating system specifications and performance statistics, and the approximate location of your device at the time the request was made.

You can also restrict the ability to use Siri & Dictation altogether under the Restrictions Setting.

By using Siri or Dictation, you agree and consent to Apple’s and its subsidiaries’ and agents’ transmission, collection, maintenance, processing, and use of this information, including your voice input, User Data, and other data that may be sent to Apple by Apps that integrate with Siri, to provide and improve Siri, Dictation, and dictation functionality in other Apple products and services.

At all times, information collected by Apple will be treated in accordance with Apple’s Privacy Policy, which can be found at www.apple.com/privacy.
kzizok
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1/1/2018 11:40am
George Orwell was ahead of his time.

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motomojo
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1/1/2018 12:02pm
Just warming up.
Hut
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1/1/2018 12:56pm Edited Date/Time 1/1/2018 12:56pm
facebook app has settings to allow microphone and camera. These are for live videos and ????
Uncheck!
Jrewing
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1/1/2018 1:17pm Edited Date/Time 1/1/2018 1:17pm
I started talking to a friend on the phone and dropped in killing obama, president, bomb, assassination key words. My phone seemed to then start running slow.
It was an older apple though, plus we don't really have swat teams down here.
wildbill
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1/1/2018 6:58pm
peelout wrote:
was in a heated debate with my gay cousin about interracial midget porn and lo and behold, i get to work this morning and it's all...
was in a heated debate with my gay cousin about interracial midget porn and lo and behold, i get to work this morning and it's all over my facepages!
It was funnier than hell when the predictive ads started popping up here at the mighty Vital. One member (can't remember who) asked why he had gay porn ads prominently displayed in the right hand ad space.
1/10/2018 11:44am
Hell yes!!! Just last night, I have three rental units, and one of my tenants calls me and says she is buying a house and needs to move out in two weeks, she has been with me for almost five years and on month to month. I get an e-mail today from Zillow, on a quiz on how well you know your renters. Cool
1/11/2018 10:49am
There is a movie, no idea what futuristic movie it was, but the character was walking down a city street and he walks past a storefront billboard and it says "Hi (name), would you like to look at some (product) today?"
Just knowing who he was and what to advertise to him. Seemed stupid at the time, but it's reality now.
1/14/2018 7:19am
Alright this is cracking me up, the other thing I have been talking about, on my rental unit ,that my tenant is moving out of is, if I want to spend the money on a new kitchen or just do small updates and just rent it. I get an e-mail today from Zillow on remodeling or just update your Kitchen. Woohoo Cool ps: I love paying interest to banks and I really like that my health insurance keeps going up!!!!!
MudPup545
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1/16/2018 10:22am
Wife and I purchased/ordered new carpet on Saturday. Was telling a co-worker about it today. Yep....you guessed it.... carpet adds are popping up on my phone.
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1/17/2018 10:40pm
MudPup545 wrote:
Wife and I purchased/ordered new carpet on Saturday. Was telling a co-worker about it today. Yep....you guessed it.... carpet adds are popping up on my phone.
Hahaha. It's almost the same as suggested friends, videos, posts that I find disturbing because the algorithm knows.
NorCal 50+
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1/17/2018 11:39pm
There is a movie, no idea what futuristic movie it was, but the character was walking down a city street and he walks past a storefront...
There is a movie, no idea what futuristic movie it was, but the character was walking down a city street and he walks past a storefront billboard and it says "Hi (name), would you like to look at some (product) today?"
Just knowing who he was and what to advertise to him. Seemed stupid at the time, but it's reality now.
That sounds like "Minority Report" with Tom Cruise. It is based on the books of Philip K. Dick, who also wrote the books that Bladerunner and Total Recall were based on. He was a futurist and a pretty trippy guy- his theme was "1984," George Orwell type stuff. There is a really great animated movie called "A Scanner Darkly" -- based on his book-- about a guy whose job is surveilling his friends every day when he goes off to work, starring Keanu and Winona Ryder.

This stuff is out the worst "Big Brother" science fiction movie scenario you could dream up, and it happened in a very short time. I remember when the Internet was new, and being amazed the first time I saw a picture of a motocross bike on Netscape in 1994. I think there was one or two moto forums back then in the 90s. I never dreamed that Google was tracking and reading everything I wrote and linking it to me- now it's commonly accepted.
They are counting on ignorance, apathy and laziness for people to just click away their private information, all of which is incredibly useful and a powerful tool. It is the last line between the corporate/government state. As if I need my phone to tell me there is a "photo opportunity" because I just walked into a restaurant somewhere.
Don't get me started on microphones and cameras in people's bedrooms, plugged into a corporate nerve center and accessible by whoever wants it in government, at any time. Your toaster will be tracking you- fuck that. I will do everything I can to keep this stuff out of my house, and will probably fail.
MudPup545
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1/18/2018 5:19am
MudPup545 wrote:
Wife and I purchased/ordered new carpet on Saturday. Was telling a co-worker about it today. Yep....you guessed it.... carpet adds are popping up on my phone.
randxii wrote:
Hahaha. It's almost the same as suggested friends, videos, posts that I find disturbing because the algorithm knows.
Hahaha. It's almost the same as suggested friends, videos, posts that I find disturbing because the algorithm knows.
Funny thing is, we did all of our carpet shopping hands on. Either in store or by the installer bringing samples directly to our home. Nothing was done via internet. I was only talking about it at work after the purchase had been made. Within the hour, bam!....the adds appeared.
randxii
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1/18/2018 10:22pm
Is the Simpsons already predicted this?
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1/30/2018 4:18pm
Just happened to me. I was talking to my boss about my insomnia and a damn Tempurpedic at just came up on this firearms website I was looking at. Y'all ain't kidding
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1/30/2018 4:42pm
Just happened to a guy at work . I texted him a pain management doctors info who prescribes medical marijuana and he started getting ads on his phone for stuff associated with weed.
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1/30/2018 5:04pm

It's off the hook.

Almost to the point to where I wanna quit the Internet altogether.
I'm in a thread over in Moto, talking Harley's and Indians, poof, next time I hit yahoo 3 ads on Indian motorcycles show up.
And Effin Amazon, all I need do is visit this place and very next time, yahoos home page is some crap about find motocross on Amazon.

It's unsettling. It's fucking creepy. It's like having a peeping tom outside your window, 24/7.

I have an old flip phone sitting on my dresser, a dinosaur, I keep prepay minutes on for a spare, just in case.

Thing looks better every day.
1/30/2018 9:02pm
MR. X wrote:
Just happened to a guy at work . I texted him a pain management doctors info who prescribes medical marijuana and he started getting ads on...
Just happened to a guy at work . I texted him a pain management doctors info who prescribes medical marijuana and he started getting ads on his phone for stuff associated with weed.
There are so many things going on in life that somethings you just don't even think about until someone points it out. Then you start paying attention and realize how bad it is.
Who thought this was a good idea?
And then people pay for devices that just sit, listen, and analyze you. Go figure
2/15/2018 6:14pm
So the other day I opened the thread about kitchen knives. I then asked my wife what was the brand
we had just started buying. Yup getting kitchen knives advertising now. I'm sure it's just a coincidence.
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8/20/2018 10:41am
The man who made the Internet public was George H.W. Bush, global petro-gangster and former head of the CIA (and personally a man I view as our American Hitler). It was originally for military people, so they probably figured out it was a great way to track and surveill people. Now with the help of the illegal surveillance perpetrated by Google, Facebook etc. we have a real-time surveillance network that Orwell couldn't have imagined in his worst nightmare.
If you notice, they are now beginning to censor online news and information based on the entirely made-up hazard of "fake news." TSA is following and surveilling innocent people for no reason. Basically we are all the enemy now because of 9/11 and the Patriot Act.
8/20/2018 2:29pm Edited Date/Time 8/20/2018 2:29pm
Do this. Start taking pictures of products with your phone.

Like coffee beans. Or a Pepsi can. Or a candy bar.

Wait a few days and look at your ads......hell a few hours. Take a picture of toilet paper rolls.....or paper towels. See what happens!

Lemme know what Happens. Post your ad screenshots here....
peelout
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8/20/2018 3:02pm
ToolMaker wrote:
So the other day I opened the thread about kitchen knives. I then asked my wife what was the brand we had just started buying. Yup...
So the other day I opened the thread about kitchen knives. I then asked my wife what was the brand
we had just started buying. Yup getting kitchen knives advertising now. I'm sure it's just a coincidence.
same here except replace "kitchen knives" with "sex robots"
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8/20/2018 3:49pm
NorCal 50+ wrote:
The man who made the Internet public was George H.W. Bush, global petro-gangster and former head of the CIA (and personally a man I view as...
The man who made the Internet public was George H.W. Bush, global petro-gangster and former head of the CIA (and personally a man I view as our American Hitler). It was originally for military people, so they probably figured out it was a great way to track and surveill people. Now with the help of the illegal surveillance perpetrated by Google, Facebook etc. we have a real-time surveillance network that Orwell couldn't have imagined in his worst nightmare.
If you notice, they are now beginning to censor online news and information based on the entirely made-up hazard of "fake news." TSA is following and surveilling innocent people for no reason. Basically we are all the enemy now because of 9/11 and the Patriot Act.
You are a brave man for publicly saying that. You're on the list now. I'm not sure if I'm joking or notSad
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8/20/2018 3:54pm
ToolMaker wrote:
So the other day I opened the thread about kitchen knives. I then asked my wife what was the brand we had just started buying. Yup...
So the other day I opened the thread about kitchen knives. I then asked my wife what was the brand
we had just started buying. Yup getting kitchen knives advertising now. I'm sure it's just a coincidence.
peelout wrote:
same here except replace "kitchen knives" with "sex robots"
Don't lie Peely...you searched for, "dirty, slutty, sex robots, with erasable memory".Evil
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8/21/2018 12:27am
NorCal 50+ wrote:
The man who made the Internet public was George H.W. Bush, global petro-gangster and former head of the CIA (and personally a man I view as...
The man who made the Internet public was George H.W. Bush, global petro-gangster and former head of the CIA (and personally a man I view as our American Hitler). It was originally for military people, so they probably figured out it was a great way to track and surveill people. Now with the help of the illegal surveillance perpetrated by Google, Facebook etc. we have a real-time surveillance network that Orwell couldn't have imagined in his worst nightmare.
If you notice, they are now beginning to censor online news and information based on the entirely made-up hazard of "fake news." TSA is following and surveilling innocent people for no reason. Basically we are all the enemy now because of 9/11 and the Patriot Act.
"We don't do politics." GuyB, 2018

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8/21/2018 2:46am
ToolMaker wrote:
So last night at Xmas eve dinner with family we were talking about the first couple months with the puppy. (Nephew also has an Ausi). I...
So last night at Xmas eve dinner with family we were talking about the first couple months with the puppy. (Nephew also has an Ausi). I was telling him about how she was like a little snapping shark bitting us all the time with those sharp little needle teeth. Not agressive but just over zelous play. Anyone ever raise a puppy and you know.
Phone in the pocket the whole time.
So this morning I can't open sites without advertisements for dog bite lawyers.
Any examples from you guys and gals?
TM
I operate a phone repair business and yes they do listen. Google the world largest advertising company wants to know everything about you so they can target their ads better this they make more money is simple math. We have done numerous test at work and yes the ads always come up with this we have talked about. Not going to go into IOS or Android debate as they all seem to do it more depending o. The Installed apps too.

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