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Hi there, welcome to Business Daily from the BBC.

I'm Ed Butler.

Today, the question many of us are asking, it seems, are our devices listening to us?

I kind of feel like they're watching you.

Also, like, kind of scaryly, I feel like things I've just said

out loud have popped up on my adverts. Some say our computers and laptops are even tuning

into vocal moods as we speak, or are we just becoming a bit paranoid? That would be a really

magnificent waste of resources to do that type of surveillance

for the purposes of showing you an ad worth fractions of a dollar or fractions of a pound.

Getting to the bottom of the myth of eavesdropping tech, it's Business Daily from the BBC.

Hi. myth of eavesdropping tech. It's Business Daily from the BBC. This is the British Library in central London, where students from around the world come to study, gather, drink coffee and click on their laptops. Banks of them

hard at it, enjoying the free Wi-Fi. But not all of them, it seems, totally wild about some

of the other obstacles they find online these days. Like the sneaky methods, they reckon advertisers

are using to lure them in. I only have Facebook and LinkedIn.

I deleted my Instagram just because it was so distracting.

The adverts, they seemed like my best friends,

that they knew exactly what I wanted when I wanted it.

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