grubbyweasel@sh.itjust.workstoTechnology@lemmy.world•In Leak, Facebook Partner Brags About Listening to Your Phone’s Microphone to Serve Ads for Stuff You MentionEnglish
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15 days agoNgl man I’m not buying it. With all the protections in mobile OSes against this exact kind of thing it straight up doesn’t seem possible
If you look at the slideshow, cox media group doesn’t claim to be the ones harvesting the data, only to be processing it using AI to then provide that aggregate information to advertisers. Which makes sense, they literally have no means to directly collect voice data from you
Also no offense but, I thought lemmy users were a little bit better than this whole “read headline, make assumptions, storm to comments” thing that Reddit loves to do