Comment on Cox Media Group claims to be listening to private conversations to sell advertisements
Nobody@lemmy.world 11 months ago
They’re all doing it. We’re carrying around listening devices 24/7 and expecting evil corporations not to spy on everything we say and do… why? Because they said they wouldn’t? Because they put their customers ahead of profits? What have these companies done to earn even the slightest degree of trust?
TORFdot0@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s the technical hurdles that have me skeptical that they could do it, at a cost that is profitable, without it being widely known how. Either it’s novel and not being done by anyone by CMG; or it’s not, in which case why is CMG marketing like they are the only ones doing it.
But it’s probably safer to assume that everyone is already listening in so that you are prepared because you know they would if they could.
Copernican@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah, Amazon laying off a lot of folks in their Alexa division makes me skeptical this is real and is scalable.
Gamoc@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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.