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10 days agoThey don’t need phone microphones to get this info, the data they have and profile they build are already as good as microphone data. Even if you are privacy conscious, surveillance tech still builds a profile of you based on data on your friends, family etc.
It’s likely Google already got your brother’s crunchyroll viewing history. The fact that you were both supposedly high would’ve have made it very obvious as an erratic/unusual event. Google then kept this info and used it to ultimately suggest this to your friends, using a “ghost” profile of you. Satellites aren’t exactly something people look up very often.
Big tech still tracks you, even if you don’t own a smartphone, via your friends’ smartphones.
Data such as WiFi, cell, and Bluetooth it is already possible to accurately track people who are privacy conscious by building a “ghost” profile of you.
This is how Facebook or LinkedIn automatically suggest people you’ve met when you sign up, even if you’ve never used their services or have owned a smartphone before.
Privacy consciousness is only as good as the weakest link in an entire social network.