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In an age of ever-advancing technology, many users have long suspected their smartphones of eavesdropping on their private conversations. New findings suggest they may have been right all along.

Several tech privacy experts now confirm that smartphones can indeed pick up keywords from users’ conversations, triggering targeted ads, even when voice assistants like Siri or Google Assistant aren't actively engaged. While companies like Apple, Google, and Facebook deny explicitly listening to private conversations without consent, data harvested from smart devices suggests otherwise.

Research has revealed that smartphones collect a range of audio cues, using sophisticated algorithms to process and act on voice data in ways that could be perceived as listening in. This reinforces what many users have suspected after noticing that conversations about products or topics are often followed by related ads popping up on their social media feeds.

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