[KHON2|VIDEO] Is your phone listening to you? It’s no secret that tech companies are tracking user data to better improve targeting strategies with reports that the Department of Homeland Security spent millions to buy cellphone location information from companies.
But it’s still unclear what those companies and the government are tracking and how. For NewsNation’s special series Surveillance State, NewsNation investigated how tech companies are collecting data from phones and other devices, and whether phones are actually listening to conversations. Serge Egelman, a data privacy researcher and director from the University of California, Berkeley’s International Computer Science Institute, said that technology is not necessarily listening to its users. [FULLSTORY]
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