Sounds reasonable Tom…there has to be an explanation. This wasn’t in a hotel, it’s the vacation home of one of the girls. I’m going to write her in the morning attempting to get more info. about the house. I know that many of the smart TV’s can be controlled by outside forces, turning on the camera and I assume the microphones….some folks put tape over the camera to attempt some privacy…
These ladies are quite sharp, well educated, tech savvy, the lady that owns the home I put into Mac computer’s years ago, her husband is a Windows guy but she wanted to go Mac so I took a day off and went to her home to instruct her on a few items, she caught on quickly and only contacted me a couple times later, now she is well versed and I never hear from her… I say this only to explain they aren’t the type that can hardly find the on button…while there my daughter rewrote a Real Estate contract, sent to her client for their signature then sent the signed document to the seller’s agent…she also wrote an offer on another piece of property for another client, all on her iPad…. But understanding how their voices could direct advertising is something they want to understand. John > On Apr 28, 2018, at 11:32 PM, tom holloman <chuba...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Is this 1984? > > On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 4:50 PM John Robinson <profilecoven...@me.com > <mailto:profilecoven...@me.com>> 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: MacGroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu > <mailto:MacGroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu> > 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=pKxMFocyi-GQo5jzJ5uodA4IrLWNmyonxuMpW2nC8yg&s=OKivjUd7Y5OHGsvcF-FByHpWjI5qmAwgFCUGLjm39gI&e= > > <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.mail-2Darchive.com_macgroup-40erdos.math.louisville.edu_&d=DwMFaQ&c=OAG1LQNACBDguGvBeNj18Swhr9TMTjS-x4O_KuapPgY&r=F2GFXrjLFqVo3VwvIlo_XYeEiRRjHv15rxcenz7A21woG2aFGcrzndoSsskxfmOs&m=mV18sbJh1TXsVI4uiQj6PhEwDQ81jAeX7pLhzA6H_Vc&s=GKYeOAM-AVcjxwKP50zW62C9yjd3875cN4qPvicuX3k&e=>> > Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/ > <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/>> > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > Posting address: MacGroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu > 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=pKxMFocyi-GQo5jzJ5uodA4IrLWNmyonxuMpW2nC8yg&s=OKivjUd7Y5OHGsvcF-FByHpWjI5qmAwgFCUGLjm39gI&e=> > Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/>
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