At some point during our smartphone ownership, many of us have noticed that we happen to

be talking about wood shippers or some other unusual thing.

And then the next time we open Facebook, we found we were being served ads for them.

The only possible explanation, so it has seemed, is that our phones have been listening

in on our conversations.

Could this be true?

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You're listening to Skeptoid.

I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com.

How your smartphone is listening to you.

These smartphones, most of us carry around with us, contain just about every sensor imaginable.

They know where we are.

They have cameras to see us with, and microphones to hear us.

They have biometric sensors to learn our fingerprints and map the unique contours of our

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