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Your Phone Isn’t Eavesdropping on You to Show You Ads (It’s Worse Than That) (lifehacker.com)
submitted 18 hours ago by jsomae@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world
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I changed the title from "Spying" to "Eavesdropping" because the article actually directly supports that it is "spying" on you, just not listening.

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[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Unless you are aware of further developments than I am, Alphonso required permissions and provided a consent dialog so it could not be considered spying or eavesdropping.

[–] thedruid@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

no, its built into other apps. doesnt ask for anything then, the other apps do, Alphonso just listens in those apps