Jonathan Zeller erklärt es der „hysterical tinfoil-hat crowd“ halt noch einmal.
We do not live in some tech dystopia in which our smartphones clandestinely use their mics to pick up every word we say and then feed us commercial messages based on them. The truth is simpler and not at all alarming: your phone [is] collecting data about every word you type, every website you visit, and, through GPS tracking, everywhere you go in the physical world. […] They know what news sources you read, the contents of your emails, what WebMD pages you’ve visited, and how long you’ve spent at which church, synagogue, mosque, or ethical humanist center.
Jonathan Zeller
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