An advertising partner of Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Amazon admitted that your smartphones and other devices can listen to everything you say for ad targeting.
Ever felt like your smartphone or some other similar smart device could be eavesdropping on you because something you talked about privately suddenly got shoved to your face as an ad? This does not look like a coincidence after all as a leaked sales pitch deck from a large advertising media firm seems to confirm such suspicions.
404 Media obtained the supposed deck belonging to Cox Media Group (CMG), the digital marketing service that has partnered with the likes of Google, Facebook’s Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon.
According to the supposed sales pitch document (published November 2023) CMG presented to the above big tech giant, the technology used to monitor and actively listen is called “Voice Data” and CMG openly claims “Yes, Our Phones are Listening to US” in a section explaining how businesses can use that data to efficiently target ads.
