Fact check
Is it true: Smartphones Listening Claims?
Partially True74% confidence
Partly — it's more complicated than the claim suggests.
Phones collect extensive data and apps can abuse permissions, but ad targeting usually works through data brokerage and behavioral inference rather than constant covert recording.
The claim
Claims that smartphones constantly record conversations to serve ads or feed government surveillance.
Key evidence
Many users report ads matching spoken (not typed) conversations
Controlled experiments have not reproduced microphone-to-ad targeting
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