2026-03-12 20:12 UTC
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@infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 2026-03-13 00:41
Cox Media Group got kicked off Google's ad partner program a few years ago when 404 Media scooped that they had a feature called CMG Active Listening which did exactly this. They had a slide deck. Audio spying by advertisers is like doping in pro sports, everybody does it and you only get caught if you're stupid. Remember back in 2013 a whistleblowing NSA contractor told us to put our phones in the fridge if we wanted to have a secret conversation? He had a slide deck, too. The western world is run by a cult of pedophiles, the fact that our phones listen in on us without our consent is not a stretch.
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@Noja@sopuli.xyz 2026-03-12 21:03
Meta / Instagram / Facebook [ definitely does this](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/sep/04/yes-it-sounds-like-a-conspiracy-theory-but-maybe-our-phones-really-are-listening-to-us), they even [hack your phone](https://news.sky.com/story/meta-found-covertly-tracking-android-users-through-instagram-and-facebook-13379083) to get even more data.
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@PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.world 2026-03-13 01:28
Metaphors are just a step too far, eh? No, they're not "listening" to audio, but their servers are definitely listening for all the data we send them.
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@bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 2026-03-12 21:51
Anyone who says they aren't listening are idiots who know nothing of big tech. They are listening.
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@Ledivin@lemmy.world 2026-03-13 02:17
> It definitely totally happens every single day but nobody ever manages to get a piece of hard evidence. Are you just lazy and in denial? There is traffic sent from both Alexa and Google Home every time it detects something that it considers speech, regardless of whether the wake word was detected. This is not debatable, set up your own tests.