Maybe your phone thinks your bank is your home address since you go there so often. Idk that's very weird, especially how it guessed you would be going to the bank next. I really don't have an explanation for you OP, all I know is that posts like yours are not the first.

They do this by tracking every move you make and listening for keywords and names passively using your phone's mic. This data is uploaded to the cloud and assigned to your "profile". An algorithm analyzes your habits and patterns and things you do and talk about, websites you visit and predicts your interests and habits. Ever have something pop up in your Facebook feed that you swear you were talking about earlier? That's not a coincidence.

This.

That(the YT vid) doesn't sound like a very good example. Most people who talk about their phone spying on them say it happens quickly, not after days.

I suggested a test once before. Write down a specific product, that you have no reason to own or buy, on a piece of paper, in a room away from any device. Put it in your pocket or wallet, or somewhere easily accessible. Wait a week and make sure you don't ever mention it aloud. If you come across an ad for it online during that week without mentioning it, toss the paper out and start again with a new product. Don't search for it online or click any kind of links to anything like it. This is to make a control.

Now start talking about the product for a single day, either alone or with friends, and do it frequently. If you start seeing ads pretty quickly, you're likely being monitored.

Start off by turning your location off unless you absolutely need it. Then go app by app and limit permissions to microphone, location, Bluetooth, etc...

Sorry, I assumed you were using Android. I have no idea if it'll work on Apple. Their OS is closed source, no way to test it. Doesn't hurt to try. Can you limit permissions on apps?

Turn off fucking Siri! That is the issue right there! The maps app just shows maps. It is only with Siri on that any of that suggestion shit happens. I can’t believe anyone actually leaves all that active.

you dont think that really turns it off do you

It fuckin does. Have you analyzed and compiled the code to see for yourself? Apparently not. You're just parroting bullshit.

have you? and even so you really think its gonna listen? why you get so angry

Yes I have. I just hate parrots that repeat nonsense with nothing to back it up. Is what going to listen?

I dont think that makes a difference...

Its like when you type "asian" into google and it autofills "asian ass porn" for you already. The bank maybe saved as onr of your most frequently visited places, so if you start in that direction maybe it autofills so to speak.

yes .. it is

https://mobile.twitter.com/snowden/status/793109381982326784?lang=en

I hate that there are so many of these "mind reading shitty consumer level electronics that advertise to people who dont spend enough money to justify the use of such high tech apparatus, but for some reason they do anyway".

No, its called GRAPH ANALYTICS combined with AI.

There is an entire field of science that allows one to predict behaviour patterns with seemingly "mind reading" accuracy.

Combine graph appliances with ultrasonic beacons, geolocation that tells proximity to businesses and residences, cameras everywhere, license plate readers, RFID tags.

All those cheap low tech devices make people who dont take measures to avoid interacting with them, or even to give them so much noise to signal as to fuck with them, think that their mind is being read by a device with zero technical capability to do that.

Youd need something along the lines of an fMRI machine that can actually "read thoughts". A multimillion dollar piece of equipment that takes a whole section of a hospital, liquid helium, superconducting magnets, a supercomputer to construct the imagery and an expert to read it.

These threads are akin to the ancient myths when people thought Zeus was hurling lightning instead of understanding how electricity works.

These myths need to be destroyed and people need to dive into the subjects related to HPC(high performance computing), spy tech of all kinds like the ones i mentioned, and the fact that the majority of their phone or computer settings are "all spyware enabled by default" and they dont bother to change them.

Sorry about the rant. There are a bunch of people who seem to think that their phones actually do read minds.

I have given it a lot of thought in terms of opsec. If you want privacy you pretty much need to live in a SCIF or at least try to mitigate data leakage in the same way that the spies themselves do.

the algorithms can tell alot just by the GPS alone.

Smartphones can "notice" when certain events coincide with others and use that to predict your future behavior remarkably well. I know that I used to get a notification every time I was about to leave for work because my phone knows where I am at all times, when I'm driving, how long it takes me to get there, etc. If you go to the same place 5 days a week at the same time, it might even assume that location is your "work" and identify it as such. Ditto for your home. If it has seen that pairing to your Bluetooth car means you're going for a drive, it may start guessing at your destination. If you haven't been to a frequent destination in a while, like the bank, then that might make that destination be the top guess even if it might be unusual to go at that specific time. It's not about reading your mind, it's the fact that the phone tracking all of your location data constantly makes you REALLY easy to predict.

You can change your settings to not see such things. I know I did this because the notifications were always unnerving and never helpful at all, but the metadata about your location and functions your phone accesses are still all there on the device. Welcome to the future.

ps they might be listening through the microphone too. If you said the word "bank" at all right before pairing your phone to your car, the phone might have noticed that and assumed that was your destination. I can't prove that this happens although we frequently discuss the idea of smartphone mics listening in, but the stuff I said about location tracking data and predicting behavior is 100% documented intentional features.

Keep in mind that the actual processing is done remotely in data centers, not likely the phone itself. Phones are great sensor packages to gather data with but there are many megawatt class datacenters all over the world

Do you have Amazon Echo? I noticed that my the youtube app on my TV seems to play commercials that relate to things going on in my life. Not just searches either. Creepy.

I was at work. I was buying something from an associate of mine and told her that after I clocked out, i would go by the bank and pull out $200 cash for her. When I left work a few minutes later, I went to the atm, put in my card, and the first recommendation was get fast cash $200. Usually that first option is for $20. I had always noticed advertising being geared toward conversations I had recently held. But to have the atm just know what I wanted like that was super creepy. They are always listening. Sometimes they are sloppy about it.

No I don't use apple devices, nor do I use samsung pay. It was by far my clearest example of the machines knowing too much.

I've got a Google pixel (huge mistake, shit phone) and at my last job it started tracking my wake up times near perfectly and not bringing up the usual notification about it being time for work, which it displayed every morning, on the days I had off. Needless to say I'm changing it soon.

No, it is just making educated guesses based on an algorithm.

It fuckin does. Have you analyzed and compiled the code to see for yourself? Apparently not. You're just parroting bullshit.