Is your smartphone spying on you?

▤ Summary

However, some of the things people say are being recorded for companies own benefit, like improving the service quality or for marketing purposes. In a way, a virtual assistant is just another search engine," said Daniel Markuson, a digital privacy expert atNordVPN. Once you set up the trap, notice if any new ads have started targeting you on social media or other digital channels. Since they have given their consent, it’s legal to track the conversations with Google Assistant, Siri, Alexa, and others for marketing purposes. A virtual private network masks your IP address and encrypts traffic, thus improving your privacy.

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