The idea of smartphones and smart speakers listening to everything you say and then sending you targeted advertisements has been around for years, and has largely been debunked by privacy experts. But the marketing unit of Cox Media Group, which owns newspapers and local radio and TV stations around the country, says it can do […]
  • Chozo@kbin.social
    181·
    11 months ago

    Following an investigation by Bloomberg, the company admitted that it had been employing third-party contractors to transcribe the audio messages that users exchanged on its Messenger app.

    So not your IRL conversations.

    There is no indication that Facebook has used the information it collected to sell ads.

    So not for ads.

    It says the opposite of the things you claimed.