{"id":3489,"date":"2021-10-29T15:36:15","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T13:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/29\/is-my-phone-listening-to-me-we-ask-the-expert\/"},"modified":"2021-10-29T15:36:15","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T13:36:15","slug":"is-my-phone-listening-to-me-we-ask-the-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/29\/is-my-phone-listening-to-me-we-ask-the-expert\/","title":{"rendered":"Is my phone listening to me? We ask the expert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Data protection advocate Mariano delli Santi on whether we should worry about targeted advertising<\/p>\n<p>We all believe in at least one conspiracy theory. Well, a little bit. That\u2019s according to a Norwegian professor who recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/news-releases\/563747\" title=\"\">argued that conspiratorial thinking<\/a> spans everything from 5G theories to believing the referee really <em>is<\/em> against your team. Mine? I think my phone is somehow listening in. How else can I explain the ads that appear for a product just as I\u2019m talking about it? I asked Mariano delli Santi, legal and policy officer with data protection advocate Open Rights Group.<\/p>\n<p><strong>As hills to die on go, I could do worse than <\/strong><strong>\u201cmy phone is listening to me<\/strong><strong>\u201d, right?<\/strong><br \/>Well, there have been fringe cases where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maxim.com\/news\/how-to-stop-smartphone-listening-2019-11\/\" title=\"\">apps have been found to turn up your mic<\/a>. But the point is, advertisers don\u2019t need to listen to know everything about you.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2021\/oct\/29\/is-my-phone-listening-to-me-we-ask-the-expert\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/748a5df771d7819d0cf4c53cba86b0d74eaefc76\/0_0_5000_3000\/master\/5000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=a3a2abe4b63394f92962c6ab15fae364\" title=\"Is my phone listening to me? We ask the expert\" \/>Data protection advocate Mariano delli Santi on whether we should worry about targeted advertising<br \/>\nWe all believe in at least one conspiracy theory. Well, a little bit. That\u2019s according to a Norwegian professor who recently argued that conspiratorial thinking spans everything from 5G theories to believing the referee really is against your team. Mine? I think my phone is somehow listening in. How else can I explain the ads that appear for a product just as I\u2019m talking about it? I asked Mariano delli Santi, legal and policy officer with data protection advocate Open Rights Group.<br \/>\nAs hills to die on go, I could do worse than \u201cmy phone is listening to me\u201d, right?Well, there have been fringe cases where apps have been found to turn up your mic. But the point is, advertisers don\u2019t need to listen to know everything about you. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Data protection advocate Mariano delli Santi on whether we should worry about targeted advertising We all believe in at least one conspiracy theory. Well, a little bit. That\u2019s according to a Norwegian professor who recently argued that conspiratorial thinking spans everything from 5G theories to believing the referee really is against your team. Mine? I &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/29\/is-my-phone-listening-to-me-we-ask-the-expert\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is my phone listening to me? We ask the expert<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3489"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}