Google "listening" to you

mfceiling

So I got my haircut this morning and the barbers was empty. We were chatting about this and that and the barber mentions that he would like to visit New York. I told him I'd been there twice and would love to go back. We chatted for a bit about it and moved on from that.

Now all my phone has is ads for New York - hotel prices etc.

Are google listening through the microphone on your phone or is it coincidence?

Wheeliebin30

Same thing kind of happened to me.

Twice I've mentioned names over the last few days and they are now showing up on Facebook as suggested friends.

One name was a foreign name I heard on the TV and I commented it's a unique name I had never heard it before.

Next thing it's suggested on Facebook, the person is from Slovakia and I have no mutual friends. Definitely something going on.

The_Valeyard

Are you using 'Google Now'

Slydice

You can check out all the recordings of you that google has here:
https://history.google.com/history/audio

It keeps them...

Forever

Have a nice day!

The_Valeyard

Slydice wrote: »

You can check out all the recordings of you that google has here:
https://history.google.com/history/audio

It keeps them...

Forever

Have a nice day!

You can delete them though. I think.

Dr Turk Turkelton

Had been happening for ages for me with both Facebook and Google.

Slydice

The_Valeyard wrote: »

You can delete them though. I think.

you can, they won't

HeidiHeidi

:eek:

somesoldiers

Did you take your tin foil hat off while getting your hair cut? Never remove the tinfoil hat!'

The_Valeyard

Slydice wrote: »

you can, they won't

Sneaky, sneaky

Here OP:
Delete recordings one at at time

Visit the Voice & Audio Activity page.

You may be asked to sign in to your Google Account.

Below the item you want to delete, click Details.

To the right of "Item details," select More More and then Delete.

Slydice

Slydice wrote: »

You can check out all the recordings of you that google has here:
https://history.google.com/history/audio

It keeps them...

Forever

Have a nice day!

Ha! I just had a look there. 5 recordings and only 2 that can be made out. One was me looking up a Clumber Spaniel after I heard it on The Chase. The other is something got to do with giving up smoking. Both in February this year. I gave up smoking and have yet to see a Clumber Spaniel

RayM

Slydice wrote: »

You can check out all the recordings of you that google has here:
https://history.google.com/history/audio

It keeps them...

Forever

Have a nice day!

:eek:

cbyrd

Slydice wrote:

You can check out all the recordings of you that google has here:

That's scary

Cheshire Cat

Slydice wrote: »

You can check out all the recordings of you that google has here:

No activity

lertsnim

Slydice wrote: »

You can check out all the recordings of you that google has here:
https://history.google.com/history/audio

It keeps them...

Forever

Have a nice day!

I've nothing too bad there thankfully.

lazybones32

It's quite recent that I was given a smartphone but every app wants access to my pictures, microphone, camera, etc. Fcuk that and fcuk them. Dunno if big brother is listening but someone is...

RayM

lazybones32 wrote: »

It's quite recent that I was given a smartphone but every app wants access to my pictures, microphone, camera, etc. Fcuk that and fcuk them. Dunno if big brother is listening but someone is...

You're looking well...

me_irl

RayM wrote: »

You're looking well...

Scary stuff all right.

http://imgur.com/gallery/1cLxV

Sir Osis of Liver.

Seems I said "Vodafone Arseholes" in October.

Chester Copperpot

It seems that I said that Ian Browne was nothing but a **** back two years ago. I don't really think he is one but I must have said it as it is my voice. Why would it be recording that

SterlingArcher

mfceiling wrote: »

So I got my haircut this morning and the barbers was empty. We were chatting about this and that and the barber mentions that he would like to visit New York. I told him I'd been there twice and would love to go back. We chatted for a bit about it and moved on from that.

Now all my phone has is ads for New York - hotel prices etc.

Are google listening through the microphone on your phone or is it coincidence?

Google records conversations through your phone. It is no secret. Or conspiracy. In order to delete this you have to go directly to the site and erase all stored voice history.

missmatty

I said something about brandy and cigars and I do remember the context of that conversation! Also 'no google dad', lol.

SEPT 23 1989

I just have to think of something and related ads are popping up

razorblunt

Well that link to the audio history is fantastic, it appears I said "chair ties" in October 2016 and in December I was annoying the wife while doing audio searches that you can hear her telling me off in the background.

SEPT 23 1989

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

I just have to think of something and related ads are popping up

Matt Cooper had some marketing guru on one day. Apparently the GPS on your phone is so accurate that it can tell what aisle you're in/what product you're looking at or spending time around in the likes of Tesco etc. Big Brother then pushes ad's for that product to your FB account or whatever. Don't know how true that is but I heard it on the radio so...

razorblunt

Snotaul Goodman wrote: »

Matt Cooper had some marketing guru on one day. Apparently the GPS on your phone is so accurate that it can tell what aisle you're in/what product you're near or spending time around in the likes of Tesco etc. Big Brother then pushes ad's for that product to your FB account or whatever. Don't know how true that is but I heard it on the radio so...

They'd probably have more success if they sent vouchers or coupons to be honest.

r93kaey5p2izun

It says no activity for me. But I have had a similar experience. My dad was watching TV5 and asked me to google some obscure French celeb from the 50s. I had only typed the first letter when it suggested the correct name.

Capt'n Midnight

somesoldiers wrote: »

Did you take your tin foil hat off while getting your hair cut? Never remove the tinfoil hat!'

you fool !

it's not a hat, it's a parabolic reflector that concentrates the rays like a satellite dish

it means they get better reception

learn_more

You are currently connected to a network of computers. Be it your smartphone, your laptop or even your tv.

Everything you do on that network leaves a footprint. It can be looked at 'live' or retrospectively. Take your pick, what's the difference.

It's not just Google that is listening to you, it's anyone that wants too.

mad muffin

No activity for me. No surprise as I don't use google. The only ads I get are of things I've looked up myself.

Super-Rush

I've noticed in the past year that if you are talking to someone and your phone is close by, if you say 'OK', sometimes OK Google will open and start listening. If it can't make out what your saying it will tell you and obviously its recording what you're saying and storing it.

greencap

just a sound like a crisp packet being shuffled for 5 minutes, then what sounds like a long groan, then a man weeping.

mfceiling

No activity!!

I don't agree to much of what they want tbh. Never put on location and very rarely use bluetooth or wifi.

Sir Osis of Liver.

greencap wrote: »

just a sound like a crisp packet being shuffled for 5 minutes, then what sounds like a long groan, then a man weeping.

You just described my last ****.

Beyondgone

mfceiling wrote: »

So I got my haircut this morning and the barbers was empty. We were chatting about this and that and the barber mentions that he would like to visit New York. I told him I'd been there twice and would love to go back. We chatted for a bit about it and moved on from that.

Now all my phone has is ads for New York - hotel prices etc.

Are google listening through the microphone on your phone or is it coincidence?

Nooo.. pure coincidence.. me hole. If I look sideways at something, I get buried in Ads for that something. That ain't no coincidence.

Samsgirl

Wheeliebin30 wrote: »

Same thing kind of happened to me.

Twice I've mentioned names over the last few days and they are now showing up on Facebook as suggested friends.

One name was a foreign name I heard on the TV and I commented it's a unique name I had never heard it before.

Next thing it's suggested on Facebook, the person is from Slovakia and I have no mutual friends. Definitely something going on.

Exact same happened to me a few weeks ago. I was talking to a friend and I recommended.a doctor to her.
Got home and went on fb on my phone and the doctor popped up as a suggested friend.

Beyondgone

Snotaul Goodman wrote: »

Matt Cooper had some marketing guru on one day. Apparently the GPS on your phone is so accurate that it can tell what aisle you're in/what product you're looking at or spending time around in the likes of Tesco etc. Big Brother then pushes ad's for that product to your FB account or whatever. Don't know how true that is but I heard it on the radio so...

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say the gps on my phone isn't quite so swishy. Mainly as it's a dumbphone and I've everything internet-related on it borked on purpose. I say this to my kids, they laugh.. there recently one of them shat on their own doorstep -the phone confirmed all. I did tell em..

Tin Foil Hat

Meh! My phone can't understand me even when I want it to.

Stheno

No activity for me when I checked it out

Beyondgone

Stheno wrote: »

No activity for me when I checked it out

you've a contrary voice though.

Autosport

No activity for me, might be because I wasn't signed in to google

Victor

If you are reading a web page with Google Chrome and you think "I need to check who that person is" or "I need to what that word means", as you start typing the word, Google is 'too quick' to prompt the word you are looking for.

Beyondgone wrote: »

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say the gps on my phone isn't quite so swishy. Mainly as it's a dumbphone and I've everything internet-related on it borked on purpose. I say this to my kids, they laugh.. there recently one of them shat on their own doorstep -the phone confirmed all. I did tell em..

Explain that one.

Jurgen Klopp

"No transcript available"

Big brother and it's tech will never suss the Wesht Irish accent boy, yeeeeow! :pac:

deco nate

I was driving home last Friday week and someone texted Sean moncrieff asking about a beer they had the weekend before in Dublin.
People started texting back about it, must have been said 8-10 times in the space of an hour.
The next day it was a suggested post on Facebook, I have never heard about it till I heard it on the radio. Dublin blonde I think was.

Beyondgone

Jurgen Klopp wrote: »

"No transcript available"

Big brother and it's tech will never suss the Wesht Irish accent boy, yeeeeow! :pac:

They have 8 Taffy feckers working on it as we speak. Give it time, Boyo.

Robsweezie

Yeah most of it is just incoherent slurring and crying.

I remember I was speaking about something *really* unusual, something like a rare piece of medical equipment or something, and the next day I had ads for it on my phone. Pi'ssed me off. I'm not impressed by the ingenuity of the people who invent this technology, i am simply pissed off with them for threatening our access to basic privacy and starting the trend towards having any level of privacy becoming a thing of the past. It's bad enough we all found ourselves gradually become addicted to and dependent upon smartphones in the last 5/6 years and that we are all forced to live with social media existing, we don't need to add another quality-of-life-decreasing thing in the form of being constantly tracked, monitored, feeling you can't talk anonymously to friends etc.

NegativeCreep

Is there a similar link to voice recordings taken by apple? I haven't had an android since 2015 so there aren't many for me to listen to in that link.

Canis Lupus

Only thing Google has recorded for me is stuff I 'okay googled'. Like I'm too lazy to manually set an alarm so I often just voice control it. There's no recordings in there of random stuff.

Don't think I've ever seen adverts change from things I've been talking about. I do get lots of stuff about hot ladyboys in my area looking to date me though....

frillyleaf

This is so strange as I've had a few things happen that were coincidental and was wondering how my adds could have gone so specific so soon after a conversation I had the other day even though I hadn't googled or recorded anything ( I don't even know how to do the recording and my phone is old and rubbish with virtually no apps.

Someone range me the other day in relation to a medical issue I am having. In the phone conversation we had he recommended something very very specific that I have never seen or heard of before...a few minutes after the conversation I started seeing adds for the same thing we spoke about popping up on my newsfeed!?

At first I thought maybe the "cookies'' were doing matches of previous searches and recent searches however this couldn't have been the case here as this was incredibly specific advertising just after the phone conversation!

I just thought it was quite strange

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

I'll be honest with you, I pay such little attention to the ads I see online that they could have entire teams listening into everythign I say and then having committees to carefully select that ads to show me, and I wouldn't even notice a thing.