Is this 1984? On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 4:50 PM John Robinson <[email protected]> wrote:
> > My daughter and two of her friends went to Hilton Head for a few days. > All three use nothing but Apple Products, there is an Apple TV in the home, > iPads, and three iPhones that belong to each of the ladies. > > One evening they were discussing a product, TV was not on, Apple TV was > not on. None of them had their iPhones on, none of them were using their > phones to do a search for the product. > > The next morning all three of the iPhones popped up advertisements for the > product they had ONLY verbally been discussing the evening before….freaked > them out. > > So, they tried it again, shutting off everything but leaving the phones in > their purses. They discussed a completely different product…sure enough > all three soon received information on this new subject. > > We all know that doing a search for a product will bring scads of > advertisements for the product and competing products.. > > But, if there were no searches, only verbal discussions how is this > information being harvested by some devise in the home. I don’t know if > they have an Echo or an Alexa. I suppose if they do then even if the > devise is spying on them how does it know each of their email addresses? > If they had been emailing the night before do these devices have the > ability to skim the packets and obtain their emails? > > If they don’t have an Echo or Alexa (and I’ll check) does anyone have a > clue how this could happen? > > What if they have an Alarm system, could it be listening and selling the > info. to Amazon and others? > > I told them I would ask the group to see what you thought. > > Thanks a bunch, > > John > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > Posting address: [email protected] > Archive: > <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.mail-2Darchive.com_macgroup-40erdos.math.louisville.edu_&d=DwIFaQ&c=OAG1LQNACBDguGvBeNj18Swhr9TMTjS-x4O_KuapPgY&r=F2GFXrjLFqVo3VwvIlo_XYeEiRRjHv15rxcenz7A21woG2aFGcrzndoSsskxfmOs&m=mV18sbJh1TXsVI4uiQj6PhEwDQ81jAeX7pLhzA6H_Vc&s=GKYeOAM-AVcjxwKP50zW62C9yjd3875cN4qPvicuX3k&e=> > Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/>
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