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anywhere that d w media center aah has gone, is establishing an old order and she june pink, president of the global power china is part of a whole system which believes his time has come. any criticism of his regime, isn't it in the bud? ah, he believes his weight is far superior than that of western democracy. china's president, she ging ping starts july 30th on d. w. big brother is watching you. this was george o l's prediction in his dystopian novel. 1984. is this why i sometimes get the feeling that i'm not really alone when my phone is nearby? hey serie ah. can our smartphone spy on us? interesting question. exactly. which is why we're going to look for answers here on

shift. ah, ah, according to a recent study, every 3rd person in germany has taking a break from social networks before, because they had concerns on data security. the protection of private data is becoming increasingly important for users. and social networks have also noticed they promised to take data security very seriously in their current privacy policies. however, there remains this one strange phenomenon that my colleague ha, tomlin noon also keeps coming across. so i just spoke to my flatmate about something and shortly after i c, as for the exact same thing on instagram, super creepy. ah, has this ever happened to you too? yeah. does instagram sit by on? not all. we leave traces online. cookies register. oh, every move. when we click on which products we buy and which pos what's we use?

i sent a friend, a photo of a hugo boss suit on whatsapp. just an hour later, a hugo boss at turned up on my instagram feed. it, jim, we've talked about will also a p on my feet hurt. instagram is instagram, listen in on me or read my messages. let's try little self experiment. i use terms that i usually wouldn't search for when she regressed augmentation in berlin and then we'll talk, i need both, what was held behind low so far, no ads. what does the expert think is instagram spying on me? from my understanding, this is not the case. even though facebook has a couple of buttons that deal with turning microphone remotely. and however, from my understanding tangled people who looked into this, i denied this matter. google, amazon, microsoft and apple. they all assure us that they're not listening in on phone

calls or using our phones, microphone to spy on us while we're cooking and, and sending us asked for a frying pan. for example. technically, this would be possible though, but let's assume that the companies really are speaking the truth. how can we still be so perfectly targeted with ads? companies like meta and google make money through advertisements. personal as odds are especially effective. the more the companies know, the better they can target you. instagram's parents, company meta saves information that users leave when they use the up. that includes everything you share with other users voluntarily, like photos, comments and likes. but the app also stores meta data from photos and videos that you upload, like where it was shot, and what it to picks. if you're constantly logged into instagram, facebook on your phone, you're also sharing your location as instagram, facebook, and what's up all register. where when the at this being used interactions with the app itself and likewise saved and analyzed by matter,

like which post scrubber attention longest. for example, instagram knows how long you scroll through the profile of your crush at night. so instagram or facebook don't actually need to spy on us. on the apps have to do is to register who we know and where we were at what time and with whom met us algorithms compare our data to our friends and followers data. this reveals a lot about us even if we're not posting or commenting. my flatmate and i are friends on facebook. the spoken about buying an air filter shortly after i'm fed an advertisement for air filters without ever having search for them online. as we are friends on facebook, the ab often registered us at the same location from this, the algorithm concludes that we must have similar interests. and since my flatmate has already looked for air filters online, i get the same at meta, connect, the data and activities from different users before letting artificial intelligence

analyze them. based on the connections, the a, i then try to predict what we like or dislike or we want and what we fear. that's why with the ads that a perfectly tailored to our interests. it's easy for advertisers to find that target audience on instagram. they can precisely direct who gets to see which ad, based on categories like gender or h group, but also location, or hobbies. these ads will pop up between status updates from friends and pages we follow ah, meta has just released a new privacy policy that chats more light on to where and why data gets collected . the company is reacting to its years of calls for more transparency. but that doesn't mean matter phase less data. after all, data is essential for personalized as the best we can do is to delete or absent

accounts or reject data sharing whenever that's at all possible. google meta, an amazon all have the same business model. it's based on collecting data for users . it's very hard to reject personalized ads with full control over what i sure i can simply stop talking to alex or i can not click on anything. however, the observation of my behavior on mine, where i am with my device locations of my devices sharing m d, the methods that is collected, that is very difficult control for an individual. but we're not completely perilous in order to control ads and instagram, you have to log in to facebook. there you can change the settings for instagram and facebook. remove all apps from your facebook account. there, probably more apps connected than you'd think. this is quite important a so ups enable location tracking others might have access to your contacts or

photos on instagram itself. hiding personalized odds on your feet is quite easy. simply choose the reason why you want to hide the and then go to settings to disable personalized ads. instagram will notify you that you won't get to see fewer advertisements, but they will at least be less personalized. finally, go to your phone settings to turn off location, tracking, go to privacy, then location services, then select instagram. and the next time you make a post or story, just leave the location out. apart from location tracking on our phone, smart assistance like apple. serious sometimes fixed the or who are way. celia are also designed to make life easier. they are already used in millions of phones and smart speakers around the world with amazon's alexa, you can now control more than 100000 different devices with voice commands from

your washing machine to your smart toilet. it's all pretty convenient, but you also pay with your data, and it is a lot of data that has been collect it more than many of us think. even if the company's claim is for your benefit, smart and helpful. that's what amazons alex. so apple, siri and microsoft katana all pretend to be it. i am aaliyah's, assistant from voice assistance, basically work by always listening in on what's being said in a room through their microphones. done finger defaulted for voice recognition, then kicks in once the magic word, which is basically the word. the voice assistant reacts to husband said that, duffy donna after which everything i say is sent to the cloud that are then sent to voice recognition before it comes back as commanding loads and the task is completed. i like so what's 500? 87 minus 398. 189. correct?

yes. by now force assistance can do was more complex requests. they also know our preferences site which recipes we like what we buy. when we sleep on family norton cushion. everything is recorded saved on service in the u. s . and linked with other user data. and let's also merge amazon, for example, knows who i am, the bose, because i'm signed in on my amazon account with us. that means they also know what i've bought in the past and where we live here, and that's how they generate a pretty precise user profile with a coffee. but during test runs, the assistance often also passed on sensitive information. investigators outside the us can already access recordings of these conversations in certain cases. if you have a voice assistant at home, you might have been collecting potential evidence against yourself for years. so

voice assistance are gathering more information than we are often aware of. users can of course delete recordings from their profile afterwards and i'll be real. i don't want to have to constantly self monitor what i say and to whom. and that's just the tip of the iceberg. technically more spying as possible. some secret services and the police have a whole other set of tools at their disposal. and they make matter microsoft, apple, or who are way look harmless. at least 50000 people have been spied on with the pegasus software in recent years, including journalists, senior politicians, and has of state. some phone manufacturers now claim that they can ward off a tax with this vi software. marcus is, is one of the most powerful surveillance tools in the world. this trojan horse fires gets installed on a phone by its user or knowingly. it can spy on anything that happens on the phone, including remotely controlling its camera or microphone. it's pretty scary. all you

need to do is have your phone connected to the internet, and then it can be infected without you noticing it. there, there will be a message sent to your column and on your phone will be infected, just like that. pegasus was developed by the israeli security company and so group police states and secret services other clients. those targeted include indian politician roha gandhi, the former pakistani prime minister, iran con, south african president, serial rama posey and the french president emanuel mccrendon. while regular smartphones have no protection against pegasus. so manufacturers like bethune from finland, promise more protection, especially for politicians, journalists, or security firms. depending on its security level and between phone runs, either on the special android operating system or self developed security operating system without google software, both operating systems monitor any unwanted changes themselves. even as an

administrator, the security mechanisms cannot be suspended. the phone won't allow any special privileges. data and communication are encrypted. to turn off the camera microphone, their hardware buttons, senses on the phone, pick up on every attempt to open it up or damage it. let's face it. if you're on line, you can be spied on, on social media channels. it's especially difficult to protect your personal data from meta and the like. and this is not that to change any time soon as it clashes with the interests of online advertisers. but at least the competition between those trying to protect private data and those trying to spy on it, keeps generating new technological innovations. have you ever felt like your phone was spying on you? and what do you do to protect your data? on insta, facebook and co send us an e mail or leave a comment on our youtube channel by and see you soon.

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