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Why It Feels Like Your Phone Is Listening to You

2024/11/19
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主持人提出人们普遍认为手机通过麦克风监听用户谈话,因为日常生活中谈论过的事情之后会出现在广告中,这种现象让人感觉不安。 David Choffnes 教授及其团队进行了一项研究,调查手机是否通过麦克风或摄像头进行监听。研究结果表明,没有证据显示公司在未经许可的情况下通过麦克风或摄像头进行录音。 David Choffnes 教授认为,公司无需监听用户谈话就能进行精准广告投放,因为用户在互联网上的行为已经提供了大量个人信息,例如访问网站、搜索内容、社交媒体活动等。这些信息足以让公司了解用户的兴趣,并进行精准广告投放。 此外,David Choffnes 教授还指出,语音转录技术在研究进行的2017年还不够成熟,公司更倾向于利用用户点击、浏览等行为数据,因为这些数据比语音转录数据更有价值。 然而,David Choffnes 教授也承认,虽然研究没有发现证据表明公司系统性地录音,但这并不意味着这种情况从未发生过。 他还提到,除了手机,其他带有麦克风的设备也可能收集个人数据,例如智能门铃、智能冰箱等。 主持人总结了David Choffnes教授的研究结果,并提出了保护个人隐私的建议,例如关注正在使用的应用和在线服务,检查隐私设置,并考虑是否需要将家用设备连接到互联网。 主持人还讨论了数据收集行业通过出售个人数据获利,而消费者却往往对此毫无察觉,以及数据泄露可能导致个人信息被用于诈骗等恶意行为的问题。 最后,主持人还讨论了精准广告投放可能会带来各种危害,例如破坏惊喜、基于敏感信息进行定向攻击等。

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The episode explores the common belief that our phones are listening to our conversations to target ads, a phenomenon that feels eerily specific and timely.
  • People often feel their devices are listening to them when they see ads related to recent conversations.
  • David Choffnes, an associate professor at Northeastern University, conducted a study to investigate this phenomenon.

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It’s a familiar feeling if you spend enough time on the internet: you talk about something in the real world, and then you see that same thing advertised to you online. This uncanny experience has led many people to wonder: are our devices listening to us? And is that how online advertisers are able to serve such specific ads? David Choffnes), associate professor at Northeastern University, says it’s not that simple.

You can read the full study David discussed in this episode here).

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