Facebook's "Active Listening" App Leak
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•In Leak, Facebook Partner Brags About Listening to Your Phone’s Microphone to Serve Ads for Stuff You Mention
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Cox Media Group boasted about its " Active Listening " feature in a pitch deck to prospective customers.
In the same slide slide, CMG counted Facebook, Google , and Amazon as clients of its service.
The media group did not cop to how it acquires its alleged voice data, instead saying only that it can identify users who are "ready to buy".
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