Your Phone Is Listening To Your Conversations

Paul Cantor
2 min readApr 9, 2018

In a conversation with my brother the other day, I casually mentioned an ex-girlfriend of his.

“I haven’t spoken to her in years,” he said. “Have no contact with her — no clue if she’s even alive.”

“You’ve never Googled her or looked her up on Facebook?” I asked.

“Nah, never,” he said. “I don’t do stuff like that. Don’t care enough to.”

The conversation went on. There was the Facebook data breach in the news and movies we’d recently seen — one of them was Snowden.

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Paul Cantor

Wrote for the New York Times, New York Magazine, Esquire, Rolling Stone, Vice, Fader, Vibe, XXL, MTV News, many other places.