cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/2504023
The original article is behind a paywall at 404media.
In a pitch deck to prospective customers, one of Facebook's alleged marketing partners explained how it listens to users' smartphone microphones and advertises to them accordingly.
As 404 Media reports based on documents leaked to its reporters, the TV and radio news giant Cox Media Group (CMG) claims that its so-called "Active Listening" software uses artificial intelligence (AI) to "capture real-time intent data by listening to our conversations."
"Advertisers can pair this voice-data with behavioral data to target in-market consumers," the deck continues.
In the same slideshow, CMG counted Facebook, Google, and Amazon as clients of its "Active Listening" service. After 404 reached out to Google about its partnership, the tech giant removed the media group from the site for its "Partners Program," which prompted Meta, the owner of Facebook, to admit that it is reviewing CMG to see if it violates any of its terms of service.
An Amazon spokesperson, meanwhile, told 404 that its Ads arm "has never worked with CMG on this program and has no plans to do so. The spox added, confusingly, that if one of its marketing partners violates its rules, the company will take action.
Paywall. I tried archive.org but maybe I don't know how to make it work
If you click through to the cross post, they have the article text and an archive link available: https://feddit.org/post/2504023
You just click on the link. Not sure what's confusing you.
Ain't got to be a dick about it, though
Says the hexbear
You can just block an instance. Not sure what's confusing you.
Who said anything about blocking instances? Color me confused, because you're not making any sense.
ok
Lmao not exactly the brightest, are you?
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