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minnix@lemux.minnix.dev to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year ago

Marketing Company Claims That It Actually Is Listening to Your Phone and Smart Speakers to Target Ads

www.404media.co

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Marketing Company Claims That It Actually Is Listening to Your Phone and Smart Speakers to Target Ads

www.404media.co

minnix@lemux.minnix.dev to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year ago
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“What would it mean for your business if you could target potential clients who are actively discussing their need for your services in their day-to-day conversations? No, it's not a Black Mirror episode—it's Voice Data, and CMG has the capabilities to use it to your business advantage.”
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    Anecdotally, the odds are near zero that my wife and I can talk once about maybe buying some obscure thing like electric blinds and suddenly targetted ads for them somehow pop up on our devices.

    This happens a lot.

    I think you’re being naive if you believe they don’t locally distill our discussions into key words and phrases and transmit those.

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        livestreaming this experiment to YouTube

        That in itself is concerning. Everyone is arguing that no company would invest resources to voice to text everything. But Google does it in YouTube.

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        What a hilarious oversight with that experiment lol! He must have felt stupid when it was pointed out to him.

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        Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

        genuine controlled experiment to determine whether Google was listening to him through his microphone

        When this was pointed out to him he retracted his statements

        Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

        I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.

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      Confirmation bias — people unconsciously prefer remembering things supporting their beliefs.

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        You are assuming he had the belief before the events when it could be the events creating the belief.

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