✅ Tech firm tests whether social media companies are eavesdropping on consumers

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✍  Yvette Shapiro was recently on a family vacation in Virginia, discussing with her husband how comfortable their mattress was. Soon after, ads for mattresses appeared on her Facebook feed. "I said to my husband, 'our phone is listening to us," Shapiro said. "I find that a little invasive, a bit creepy and certainly unwelcome." Plenty of similar claims appear online, with many consumers asking if social media companies like Facebook and Instagram are spying on them. Another user question: Where is the line? Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg shot down the suggestion when he testified before Congress last year. To find out who's right, London security company Wandera put our phones to the test. The firm conducted a three-day experiment, playing pet food commercials for 30 minutes with a smartphone in the room and leaving another cellphone in a silent room next door. "We weren't able to discern any kind of noticeable difference in terms of the adverts that were being received by that phone ver ...
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