sweetschizo:

strangerdarkerbetter:

strangerdarkerbetter:

sweetschizo:

I get why you’re having those thoughts, but your phone can’t surveillance you like that.

Actually, this isn’t paranoia or a delusion.

Any modern smartphone has more than adequate technology to “listen” to everything you say. Any device with an assistant, like Alexa or Siri or Google Assistant, is Always recording you.

Of course, the companies claim that they don’t store anything without your permission but

1. Do you read all of the fine details of every terms of service you agree to? If, like most of us, you don’t, then you have no idea what you’re giving permission for
2. As has been brought to light in the past year, these companies don’t exactly give a fuck about our privacy or rights

What anon described is actually a really common occurrence, and, though the companies claim otherwise, it’s pretty clear at this point that they are saving/using our recordings far more than they want us to think

Oh, and, legally, at least in the US, there is nothing stopping them from doing this

@sweetschizo

Wow, I had absolutely no idea about this. I’m sorry for spreading misinformation.

Yeah, just butting in, sorry, but it’s not just smartphones. I remember reading a post on Tumblr where a girl had a conversation in a room with a (turned off!) Smart tv, and the next day, her phone (which was linked to the tv account by an app) was flooded with tailored ads catered to their private conversation topic. Smart devices like phones, televisions, and integrated home devices like Alexa and Google Home that have so called ‘passive’ audio monitoring for voice commands can and do record pretty much everything around them. I had this conversation with my brother who works in IT just last week about exactly why I will never buy a smart television. It just double sucks for those of us with severe anxiety and PTSD(me!) and those like you who are dealing with other kinds of perception affected neurodiversity like schizophrenia.

Also, it’s creepy from a privacy/law enforcement etc. point of view, because how long before police or FBI or whatever make a case for using these recordings rather than having to justify planting their own bugs. If the home owner has ‘agreed’ to these things recording them, there’s a chance a court would rule they’d given their permission and they’d be admissable as evidence without the hoops law enforcement has to jump through when surveilling people without their knowledge/permission.