Keep Calm and Smartphone On. Everything You've read is false. Big Tech Companies Aren't Listening to You. Trust the Queen on Technology. OBEY keep calm.  everything you've read about mass surveillance is wrong, because we at a small british college did a study with phones we bought and tied to a fake account and concluded it didn't listen to anyone and therefore everythging you've read is false Forget the SIRI videos you've seen Forget having a conversation about tiny dogs you don't have and then getting an ad on your facebook about tiny dog sweaters Forget about that time your iphone aggressively turned itself back on 3 seconds after you walked away from it charging, only to send 5 GB of proprietarily encoded "telemetry data" to AT&T and Apple for reasons they still won't tell you but they reversed the charges for overages NO QUESTIONS ASKED AND DID IT IMMEDIATELY (which never happens) Forget this comprehensive and yet STILL incomplete research nexus of mass surveillance news stories about your devices and institutions listening in on you Why phones that secretly listen to us are a myth By Joe Tidy Cyber security reporter, BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-49585682