Is Google listening in on phone calls?

[phsopher]

I was recently talking with my mom on the phone about going to a restaurant to celebrate my dad's birthday and once the phone call finished Google Now popped up two cards for restaurants nearby. Is that some kind of new feature to pick stuff up from phone conversations? Or maybe not new, I'm a bit out of the loop. Or is just a weird coincidence?

 

[bhero]

Now is a personal assistant not a snoop. It could be of immense help. You might want to read up on it.

 

[phsopher]

In light of recent events one might understandably be skeptical of the claims that your information is not being passed on to third parties. This is not the reason for my posting though, I don't care if the information is shared. After all, people who are doing nothing wrong have nothing to hide from the giant surveillance apparatus the government's been hiding (joke courtesy of Stephen Colbert).

I was just surprised and wanted to make sure that this is indeed a feature they now have.

 

[gtbarry]

Any chance you did a restaurant search before that call?

Are these cards that have come up before? I get three cards for my local restaurants consistently.

 

[phsopher]

I haven't done a restaurant search and I've never seen those cards before. I remember seeing some restaurant cards long ago when I was in the city center, which makes sense since there are a lot of restaurants there but I have never seen them come up when I'm at home.