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Privacy policies override laws.
I dunno, Big Tech keeps having to pay money to Illinois and etc for breaking privacy laws. But I guess your general point is still accurate; you can repeatedly break laws as long as your privacy policy says so. (no AG is going to put you in jail or something to _physically_ stop you).
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How does it work for tvs in practice? Skimming the article, it seems a large practice was to use the sounds as confirmation of user location (were they at an event). What ultrasonic source is my tv likely to pick up?
I noticed Microsoft teams seems to do something like this. If I walk into a meeting room it tells me the same meeting is on speaker and do I want to mute my laptop.
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for certain devices such as smartphones, other Smart devices such as TVs are still used for that.
How does it work for tvs in practice? Skimming the article, it seems a large practice was to use the sounds as confirmation of user location (were they at an event). What ultrasonic source is my tv likely to pick up?
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I have noticed a similar trends, when speaking about some specific topics without following up on the device by traditional means (keyboard), ads started to show up in a day or to. Last occurrence, 6 months or so ago, of that happening was when one of my colleagues discussed vacation in a specific place I absolutely have no interest in visiting, so I was 100% sure I didn't google it or discussed it online. Surprising…
Could it be that they have the info of the holiday from your colleague. They then track the proximity between the two of you and then display you ads on things he is interested in. You only notice these ads when it matches what you spoke about.
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I have noticed a similar trends, when speaking about some specific topics without following up on the device by traditional means (keyboard), ads started to show up in a day or to. Last occurrence, 6 months or so ago, of that happening was when one of my colleagues discussed vacation in a specific place I absolutely have no interest in visiting, so I was 100% sure I didn't google it or discussed it online. Surprising…
If he googled it from the same network as you were on, then you could easily have been grouped together due to that.
On Discord many years ago I spoke to someone about my "big belly". The next day I received ads about exactly that topic everywhere Adsense Facebook everywhere. So the technology is at least 10 years old and I totally believe that the story is true. The key issue here is that we don't own our phones. We have little control over what those apps do and often apps are hidden and can't be uninstalled.
Talked as in voice chat or talked as in typed chat?