Facebook is always listening to your mic too. I’m the only one in our house that refuses to use it and I get stuff on my Amazon Prime feed that I speak about with the girls. It happens at least once a week. It’s creepy. And the worst part is, you can be as fastidious as you want about your own electronic security and if the people around you aren’t and your image or name appears anywhere in their posts, or you’re listed as a spouse it’s working up metadata on you even if you’re not a user of the app. Between Google, Meta and everyone other big tech company including the hardware manufacturers, they can pretty much deduce how many times you’ve used the bathroom in a single day.

I noticed this week that for the first time, when my wife sends me a picture and text on iMessage while I am driving and I click on the message on my vehicle’s display to receive the content without looking at my phon, not only does it read me the text message but it gives me a detailed description of the content. Two days ago when I was on the road, she sent me a pic of her and my daughter and a couple of their fellow volunteer firefighters standing in front of a fire truck and it said “(wife’s name) sent you a picture of 5 people standing in front of a fire truck with a partly cloudy blue sky in the background. So every picture you send now on iMessage is now receiving some level of AI analysis. Including, I’m sure, any racy pics couples share. It’s so much deeper than anyone has been led to believe.