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
>
>
>
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