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[hckynutjohn]

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@Mindy D wrote:

Home security 

@Mindy D 

As do TV sets!

hckynut 🥅🏒

[SilleeMee]

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@hckynutjohn wrote:

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@Mindy D wrote:

Home security 

@Mindy D 

As do TV sets!

hckynut 🥅🏒

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@hckynutjohn 

When I got my first smart TV and set the thing up, I remember the part about privacy settings and how you can turn off that setting where it 'sees' what you watch. So there's that. I know some remote controls have a mic in them so you can talk to your TV.  Maybe that thing is listening in on us. too.

[Annabellethecat66]

@Mindy D  Yes and I also have an Apple Watch.  I love this watch because I don't have to carry my phone everywhere.

It does everything.  At the end of the day something pops up that says it blocked something usually like 150 or so emails.

Between my daughter and son-in-law law I don't get as many as I would otherwise.

I love gadgets, but can't understand directions.  So I have my friend or my daughter set things up for me.

[SurferWife]

@SilleeMee 

Good for you for not having a smart phone!  I'd like to relinquish mine some times, but I need it for work.

Yes, you can turn your smartphone's microphone off, by individual app via the settings.  The best thing to do is ditch all IOT devices, but so few are willing to do it.

[TW]

No privacy laws in the U.S.  Everything here is considered public information and people are set up to be victimized, unlike some European countries which have strict privacy laws and people have a choice of what information they want out there for the world to see.  There are too many people making a lot of money with our most private information.  California is the only state that limits what information can be shared.  What's most disgusting is that the very companies that give out your information profit by offering identity theft information.  Capitalism at its finestl

[Nightowlz]

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@hckynutjohn wrote:

@FLtricia 

Don't be deceived, Big Brother knows all. Got any electronic devices newer than 2010, including motor vehicle?  Odds are, there isn't much Big Boy does not know about ya! Advanced technology for most was a good thing. Now??

hckynut 🥅🏒

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@hckynutjohn 

Well I guess they have been getting an ear full here. LOL!!!

I tell them to you know what all the time. I know they are listening. Never thought about them listening to us in the car. Guess you are never truly alone.

[Porcelain]

The Facebook app tracks your personal information and location even when you aren't using it. It has access to your logins for most other apps on your phone.

So Facebook knows how you use almost all the apps on your phone including your camera and maps. Where you've been and the types of items you were looking at are all recorded in their database. And then they show you special interest and product ads designed especially to persuade you of various ideas.

Facebook doesn't need cookies to do any of that. You already granted them full access to all your communications and activities and files when you clicked OK to install the app.

[cowboy sam]

I downloaded the free version of SuperAntiSpyware 

and you would be shocked at how many it finds and  when i run it during the day/evening   and delete them all

[hennypenny]

I remove cookies from the computer. How does one remove them from an Iphone?

[decaf]

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@Nightowlz wrote:

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@SilleeMee wrote:

@Nightowlz 

Listening, no. But electonically tracking, yes. How would anyone listen? 

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@SilleeMee 

I don't know but they are. Like I said in my post above when we were at my dad's house in SC we did not want to drive back home. We talked about paying a semi-truck to haul our car home so we could fly back. When we got on the computer there were all kinds of ads for semi-trucks you could pay to haul your car??? 

This happens to us all the time while we are home. We will be talking about something then get on the computer & the ads are all over the place???

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@Nightowlz  Mind if I respond to you?   We have Comcast cable and wi-fi and even though we changed all our Preferences to" don't track me", we constantly get ads on the internet and also on TV for things we just discussed 3 minutes ago.  Like there's a microphone in the cable box and they're listening.  It's bizarre and frightening.

Eta- I don't have Alexa or Siri.