Who's listening?

[Timothy Salgado]

I learned a similar thing a few weeks ago while doing checks for my bills, I was about to write out a check for the Lehigh County Authority who administers our water/sewer service. I decided to check on my I-phone , (as I was using the phone's calculator in the bill paying process) to look up whether they were taking in person payments so I could pay in cash instead of dealing with the mail. When I typed in the word Lehigh , the Lehigh County Authority came up as my first choice. How did the phone know what I was going to check? I'll assume the phone picked up info from the bill papers laying on the table? How did it know I wasn't going to search for the Lehigh River Flyfisher's association, or the Lehigh River White Water Adventures, or the Lehigh County Government Center? My wife was in another room so we didn't discuss the bills I was paying so I'll assume the phone picked up something off of the bill papers. At work I tested this with a couple other detectives and their I-Phones and had them search the word Lehigh and other government entities came up as their first choices. It's not paranoia since the tech companies have admitted to gleaning information with these devices on a regular basis. It just hit home with me when I saw it in black and white right in front of my eyes.