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Real time microphone surveillance. It was proven to exist quite a few years ago.
Any sources on this? We don't use voice activated AI bots like Alexa
Do you use a non degoogled android phone?
Yes. Partner does not
Then it could be from google assistant listening in the background or speach to text. I would do google takeout if you are really curious, you get a copy of all the data that they have on you. You can find all sorts of stuff depending on your account settings like transcripts of your conversations, locations you visit, …
What kind of TV service / set top box did you have at the time? I remember a lot of talk about providers pushing set top boxes both because it lets them use newer broadcast tech with customers using old TV tuners, but crucially it allows them to have their own software running on the box that you use to switch channels, which let them use out of band communication over the cable network to report what channels you watched, when, and how long, which I don't doubt gets sold and aggregated by ad targeting firms.
It's pretty common for smart TVs to do a similar thing to collect streaming app watch data when using the TVs built in apps.
Wild, I'll have to try that
The sources I know are in Russian so they won't be useful for you but generally gapps have this feature and idk if it can be fully disabled without degoogling.
I can translate Russian, I'd love to see their research
The first sources I've ever found was this https://piped.video/watch?v=gsZo_I8wIKI and this https://piped.video/watch?v=U0SOxb_Lfps
But since it's a very popular topic, you can find more articles, tests and researches. There's also this video that explains other kinds of tracking https://piped.video/watch?v=gsZo_I8wIKI
I'm bad at searching and I don't follow actual research papers. You can find that yourself I think.
Yeah I'm more on the actual research paper route, I need science and not opinion or speculation. But with that, I'll probably take a look since community lead efforts can be good too, thanks for sharing
Source:
Already gave.
I don't consider russian youtube videos to be credible sources.
That's racist. Get reported. Also the Russian video is just a confirmation of the American video (that is in one of the links tpo) that started the whole thing.