Special trigger words enable eavesdropping on almost any modern smartphone. Cybersecurity expert Peter Henway made a sensational statement: you are constantly monitored and you have no paranoia.
Many applications directly ask the user for microphone access. You can deny this, but, in fact, access to the microphone will still be obtained. Data recording and processing begins after the words that launch voice assistants (Ok, Google, for example).
For example, Facebook and Instagram can use literally thousands of other trigger words to fine tune marketing. Henway put his theory to the test: for a week, he uttered certain words that could trigger the tracking mechanism.
The lines about the student loan and the purchase of clothes worked. These advertisements began to pop up in the Facebook news feed. Do companies sell the collected data to third parties? Probably yes.
