Technology has become an indispensable part of our lives, giving us access to a wide range of services and features. However, with all the advantages that a smartphone offers, there are also associated risks. One that we face is espionage on our devices because it often happens that sometimes we talk about something specific and coincidentally later ads appear for it, for which it is said that certain keywords are filtered, and it is that almost the 40 percent of the participants in a survey in Spain said they felt watched and followed by their devices due to suspicious “coincidences.” of advertising.
Graphic of the day: spied on by the smartphone?
According to a study conducted by NordVPN, this situation applies to 45 percent of the people who were surveyed in Spain. Most of them, with 79 percent, said they had experienced this with their smartphone. 54 percent noticed this while using their computer, and 30 percent while using their tablet.
However, it should be noted that precise advertising is not possible by directly listening to our conversations in the strict sense, but rather through communication between different devices. In this sense, reference is made to “cross-device tracking” which refers to the recording of high-frequency sound signals from different devices connected to the Internet that are used simultaneously.
This is how our smartphone “listens” to other electronic devices, such as televisions, game consoles or other smartphones, instead of listening to us, and it is clear that most of the time this technology is used for the purpose of collecting advertising information. , which usually gives good results since most of the time, some people end up buying what they find in the ads because it is something they showed to be interested in and this is also the reason why many applications that apparently do not they need to use the microphone, they request authorization to access it. Under this premise, some platforms like Tik Tok have a bad reputation for being considered a spy platform, however, their objective is supposedly more to spy for political purposes.
On the other hand, in Italy it has also been seen that Open AI It has had problems and was even blocked since the government alleged that the technology company did not take care of the privacy of its millions of users that it has daily.