re: I think my I phone is listening to my conversations

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I don't have superpowers, people just quit mostly when I stare at them.

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So do you walk around WalMart staring down everyone on a cell phone until they hang up? Seems like it would take hours to get shopping done.

It did this to me as well on a similar situation and I wasn't logged into google or searched it

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And, don't forget about stingrays, the fake cell phone towers

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I would say that every police dept that's in a city with more than one street light uses these. They can't use the information directly in court, but they can use it to be at the right place at the right time to be able to make a bust disguised as a routine traffic stop or whatever. You can download apps to detect these. If I knew which one or ones actually worked I would download one.

The rest of your post makes you sound nuttier than a payday bar. But 60 mins has done segments on how easy phones are to hack and intercept with a Stingray and I've googled the price of a Stingray and a police dept could easy afford one. One decent bust would pay for the stingray.

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Ya big dummy. It's not constantly recording.

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These voice assistants aren't good at telling the difference between you and a recording yet, that's why podcasts and infamous TV commercials can set them off. I do think in the future they'll be doing this kind of processing, and Amazon had pretty blatantly introduced an always on active listening device into homes, but the tech is just not there yet. They still do the processing in the cloud and if they were constantly sending unexpected data back to the mothership somebody would have noticed and started a shite storm already.

Google's autocomplete has been spookily accurate for years even before everyone had a mic in their pocket. As has already been pointed out, you people are not nearly as unique as you think you are and you are likely not the first person in your area to ask google about the game that everyone is watching or the star of a movie that you watched not completely at random, but probably because NetFlix recommended it to you just like they recommended it to a bunch of other people.

They also let advertisers target "like" audiences. So you don't even have to search something to get an ad, you just have to have a profile close enough to someone that did do a search or bought a product to see an ad that your doppleganger triggered, not you.

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So do you walk around WalMart staring down everyone on a cell phone until they hang up? Seems like it would take hours to get shopping done.

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I don't shop at Walmart. There are some small shops where it doesn't happen. But, in grocery stores, it is really bad. I can't stop everyone, but I've asked a few people "why are you pointing your phone at me?"

Is it too much to ask to be able to shop without having cell phones pointed at me? That's not an unreasonable request.

Even cars do it - I pull up beside some car, and then there's someone yakking on their cell phone looking at me.

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but I've asked a few people "why are you pointing your phone at me?"

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By all means please tell us what their response is?

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You really should listen to your dad more.

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I love Dad, but I need to listen to him less. I know I frustrate him, but the fact is undisputable that people are cell phoning me and it needs to stop.

Medicine is not what I need. Peace is what I need.

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pretty rude imo. I don't talk on the phone in public unless it's urgent

But I'm sitting here wondering why I think that. Is it just me?

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Eh, I usually don't either. Just a hypothetical.

gotcha. was just wondering if I'm too sensitive thinking that's rude