boem@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoDo our phones listen to our conversations? The answer is complicated.english.elpais.comexternal-linkmessage-square44fedilinkarrow-up1196arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up1196arrow-down1external-linkDo our phones listen to our conversations? The answer is complicated.english.elpais.comboem@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square44fedilinkfile-text
Our mobile devices listen to and collect a significant amount of data on us, even without using our microphones.
minus-squareArghZombies@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoWhether anyone is manually connecting to specific phones to listen in live to conversations is a very different topic. I’d say it’s a more important one then whether Google are recording everything so they can advertise things at you. But yeah, that’s not what this article is about.
minus-squareIgnacio@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year ago The National Security Agency (NSA) is a national-level intelligence agency of the United States Department of Defense So, is the United States Department of Defense interested in some random dudes in Belgium, or Namibia? That US-centrism is sickening sometimes.
minus-squaresome_guy@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 year agoThey definitely are interested in that. The lack of understanding about how broad-reaching and arbitrary USA’s surveillance web is, is sickening sometimes.
minus-squaretotallynotfbi@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoConsidering that Belgium shares signals intelligence with the USA under the Fourteen Eyes agreement, they’re most certainly interested.
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Whether anyone is manually connecting to specific phones to listen in live to conversations is a very different topic. I’d say it’s a more important one then whether Google are recording everything so they can advertise things at you.
But yeah, that’s not what this article is about.
So, is the United States Department of Defense interested in some random dudes in Belgium, or Namibia? That US-centrism is sickening sometimes.
They definitely are interested in that.
The lack of understanding about how broad-reaching and arbitrary USA’s surveillance web is, is sickening sometimes.
Considering that Belgium shares signals intelligence with the USA under the Fourteen Eyes agreement, they’re most certainly interested.