This article does *not* show that our phones are *ambiently* listening to us to target ads.
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This article does *not* show that our phones are *ambiently* listening to us to target ads.
THIS IS NOT HAPPENING.
In Leak, Facebook Partner Brags About Listening to Your Phone’s Microphone to Serve Ads for Stuff You Mention
One of Facebook's alleged marketing partners explained how it listens to users' smartphone microphones and advertises to them accordingly.
Futurism (futurism.com)
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CMG is *claiming* that this is *possible*, but there is explicitly no evidence that it is *actually occurring*.
(I also doubt that it is at all possible without the participation of the device makers to do this in secret.)
https://www.404media.co/cmg-cox-media-actually-listening-to-phones-smartspeakers-for-ads-marketing/
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@jsit someone in work Slack dropped this. Had to throw cold water on it, sadly. Thought tech folks would know better.
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@samf Confirmation bias — people love to be cynical