“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.”

A marketing team within media giant Cox Media Group (CMG) claims it has the capability to listen to ambient conversations of consumers through embedded microphones in smartphones, smart TVs, and other devices to gather data and use it to target ads, according to a review of CMG marketing materials by 404 Media and details from a pitch given to an outside marketing professional. Called “Active Listening,” CMG claims the capability can identify potential customers “based on casual conversations in real time.”

  • admiralteal
    5•11 months ago

    You’ve literally just described your own view as believing in a grand conspiracy where all players have sworn themselves to secrecy in a scheme any one of them could undermine in a moment, so I guess that’s that.

    • FfaerieOxide
      0•11 months ago

      I don’t see where I did that. To say you sound more conspiratorial (which you do) is not an admission of any conspiratorial thinking on my part.

      • admiralteal
        4•11 months ago

        A bunch of people making money jerking one another off and you think any one of them’d be in a rush to rock the boat?

        In case you edit it away later. Very good, bye now.

        • FfaerieOxide
          1•11 months ago

          Now is that me describing my view as …I believe the quote was “believing in a grand conspiracy”?

          And don’t try to side-step that you were speaking metaphorically as you literally said

          literally

          You’ve literally just described your own view as

          I did no such thing.

          You seem to have a similar grasp on others’ words as you do the realities of economic systems.