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It's even worse because phones have cameras and microphones and I believe Google uses the latter for tracking for ad related purposes.
I think it's been proven that Google doesn't listen in to your conversations. While there are a lot of real privacy issues, the microphone theory is just conspiracy fear-mongering
I have proofs of them listening good enough to believe it's true.
at my last job during every break my fb-addict coworker would always get ads on facebook on her iphone that were exactly about what we were discussing a few minutes earlier. became very clear there was some eavesdropping going on.