Sep 23, 2026 · 1 hr 32 min · 14 segments
Send us Fan Mail **EP 196: Ant Examines My Phone — The Hidden Risks Inside Our Everyday Apps** What do WhatsApp, Instagram, TikTok, Waze, dating apps, QR codes and fitness trackers really know about…
And the listener will know I have a little quirk with my own television, which isn't an LG.
And I've always said that I've always been rather puzzled that it just turns itself on in the middle of the night.
Now, I know that you're going to go into something super interesting here, but I've got these little LED strips that you stick to the back.
So when it comes on, the LED comes, the LED lights come on, my room kind of glows mauve and green.
And that's how I know it's come on.
Otherwise, I wouldn't have known that there's a power ignition.
Take us away.
And they essentially discovered that they are listening to everything you do, recording everything you do.
And then after you've given it a voice command, it keeps listening for a short while and then keeps a transcript of that in plain text on the device that it then sends off.
The whole story, it's a two-hour long video and it goes down all kinds of journeys.
But what's amazing is that nobody really realizes that these devices are listening.
And then I posted this on Instagram in a really simple way, just to say, like, this is what they've done.
And the listener will know I have a little quirk with my own television, which isn't an LG.
And I've always said that I've always been rather puzzled that it just turns itself on in the middle of the night.
Now, I know that you're going to go into something super interesting here, but I've got these little LED strips that you stick to the back.
So when it comes on, the LED comes, the LED lights come on, my room kind of glows mauve and green.
And that's how I know it's come on.
Otherwise, I wouldn't have known that there's a power ignition.
Take us away.
And they essentially discovered that they are listening to everything you do, recording everything you do.
And then after you've given it a voice command, it keeps listening for a short while and then keeps a transcript of that in plain text on the device that it then sends off.
The whole story, it's a two-hour long video and it goes down all kinds of journeys.
But what's amazing is that nobody really realizes that these devices are listening.
And then I posted this on Instagram in a really simple way, just to say, like, this is what they've done.
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