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Cox Media Group claims to be listening to private conversations to sell advertisements(www.404media.co)

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

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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.

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