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Cox Media Group claims to be listening to private conversations to sell advertisements (www.404media.co)
submitted 11 months ago by TORFdot0 to c/technology
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While I’m dubious of the claim due to the robust permissions management in the latest versions of iOS and Android, it is interesting that a company has come out and said they are doing what everyone is thinking.

And yes they are a subsidiary of the parent of Cox Communications, the ISP, so I would be switching to a competitor ASAP if I had their services

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[–] TORFdot0 20 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It’s the technical hurdles that have me skeptical that they could do it, at a cost that is profitable, without it being widely known how. Either it’s novel and not being done by anyone by CMG; or it’s not, in which case why is CMG marketing like they are the only ones doing it.

But it’s probably safer to assume that everyone is already listening in so that you are prepared because you know they would if they could.

[–] Copernican 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, Amazon laying off a lot of folks in their Alexa division makes me skeptical this is real and is scalable.

[–] Gamoc 1 points 11 months ago

Amazon failed with Alexa because they couldn't monetize it enough to make it profitable. If you're using it to spy and sell data, there's your profit.