Kindle Fire, Big Brother listening in?

Floyd

Winger
I made an offhand comment to a family member about a particular netflix series being recommended by a book club on twitter whilst we were watching tv via my kindle fire. Lo and behold when I open the netflix app on the device about an hour later the 1st series being advertised is the one I was saying had been recommended!

Can Kindle fire devices listen in to conversations going on around them to target adverts (or any other nefarious actions)?
 


I made an offhand comment to a family member about a particular netflix series being recommended by a book club on twitter whilst we were watching tv via my kindle fire. Lo and behold when I open the netflix app on the device about an hour later the 1st series being advertised is the one I was saying had been recommended!

Can Kindle fire devices listen in to conversations going on around them to target adverts (or any other nefarious actions)?

Yes.

Just like Google Assistant, Siri, Alexa and the like are always listening.
 
I made an offhand comment to a family member about a particular netflix series being recommended by a book club on twitter whilst we were watching tv via my kindle fire. Lo and behold when I open the netflix app on the device about an hour later the 1st series being advertised is the one I was saying had been recommended!

Can Kindle fire devices listen in to conversations going on around them to target adverts (or any other nefarious actions)?
Depends how old it is. I've got the first generation Kindle Fire and it doesn't even have a microphone so unless its lip reading I think I'm safe.
 
I made an offhand comment to a family member about a particular netflix series being recommended by a book club on twitter whilst we were watching tv via my kindle fire. Lo and behold when I open the netflix app on the device about an hour later the 1st series being advertised is the one I was saying had been recommended!

Can Kindle fire devices listen in to conversations going on around them to target adverts (or any other nefarious actions)?

Yes mate. On numerous occasions I have been talking about a certain product, whip my phone out 5 minutes later and there's ads all over for that exact product.. scary really.
 

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