Cox Media Group claims to be listening to private conversations to sell advertisements

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Marketing Company Claims That It Actually Is Listening to Your Phone and Smart Speakers to Target Ads
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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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They're like "we should address the fact that this product sounds exactly like a bleak dystopian future"

The comparisons to Black Mirror are crazy considering that the show serves to always show the downsides of dystopian tech.

Weird for a self proclaimed marketing company to not know that.

well, you call it dystopia, they call it brainstorming :P