Are Phones and Smart Speakers Listening to You? Cox Media Group Claims They Can | Cord Cutters News - eviltoast
The idea of smartphones and smart speakers listening to everything you say and then sending you targeted advertisements has been around for years, and has largely been debunked by privacy experts. But the marketing unit of Cox Media Group, which owns newspapers and local radio and TV stations around the country, says it can do […]
      • Chozo@kbin.social
        181·
        11 months ago

        Following an investigation by Bloomberg, the company admitted that it had been employing third-party contractors to transcribe the audio messages that users exchanged on its Messenger app.

        So not your IRL conversations.

        There is no indication that Facebook has used the information it collected to sell ads.

        So not for ads.

        It says the opposite of the things you claimed.

      • iAmTheTot@kbin.social
        7·
        11 months ago

        I generally don’t go out of my way to validate every crazy thing I read on the internet without any backing evidence supplied.

      • null@slrpnk.net
        4·
        11 months ago

        There is. And the parent commenter can use it to find and share evidence for their claim.