Posted on 09/03/2024 9:43:46 AM PDT by bitt
Your long-held suspicions are confirmed, according to a report: Your phone really is listening to you.
A marketing firm whose clients include Facebook and Google has privately admitted that it listens to users’ smartphone microphones and then places ads based on the information that is picked up, according to 404 Media.
Cox Media Group, the television and radio news conglomerate, admitted in a pitch deck to investors that its “Active Listening” software uses artificial intelligence to “capture real-time intent data by listening to our conversations,” according to the report.
“Advertisers can pair this voice-data with behavioral data to target in-market consumers,” the company wrote in the pitch deck.
CMG noted in the deck that consumers “leave a data trail based on their conversations and online behavior” and that the AI-powered software collects and analyzes said “behavioral and voice data from 470+ sources.”
The slideshow includes claims that Facebook, Google and Amazon are clients of CMG’s “Active Listening” service.
Google removed CMG from its “Partners Program” website after it was contacted by 404 Media to comment on the matter.
“All advertisers must comply with all applicable laws and regulations as well as our Google Ads policies, and when we identify ads or advertisers that violate these policies, we will take appropriate action,” a Google spokesperson told The Post.
Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, admitted that it was reviewing CMG to see whether it violated any of its terms of service.
“Meta does not use your phone’s microphone for ads and we’ve been public about this for years,” a Meta spokesperson told The Post.
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I LOVE MY LAND LINE & MY $20 “SLIMLINE” PHONE.
Which Linux phone do you use? I tried the Volla Phone, which can run on both Linux or the proprietary Volla OS. Imported from Germany. But despite assurances from Volla, I couldn’t find a US carrier whose SIM card would work in Volla. So I returned it and bought an Apple.
I’ve also heard of the Pine Phone for Linux, but I haven’t tried it.
If something is free, then you’re the product
I think you and I have chatted before, some of this sounds familiar with the SIM card issue and the Volla phone.
I’m using a Fairphone 4. I put UBPorts on it.
What year/how long ago did you give all of this a try and which specific “Linux” (if you remember) was on there?
I can’t say for certain, but I do think your prior conversation had some impact on me. The reason I say this, is that the very first thing I tried before wiping out and installing Linux was ensuring that the SIM card was working as expected in the new phone. :-)
Its definitely not just a tablet. :-) It makes and receives SMS/MMS/calls, stores and accesses contacts as a first-class function like you would expect a phone to operate.
Plus getting online and watching multimedia and other functionality of that sort.
Make the effort to turn OFF the mobile phone.
Yeah, that is what I am worried about. Drivers and cell compatibility are going to be a challenge.
I use Nord VPN on my Apple, so hopefully that helps. And I have the Apple set to put nothing on Apple Cloud.
Then you’ll want to start with this one, if you start.
https://devices.ubuntu-touch.io/device/sargo/
It’s old and really cheap(but still new enough to have working 4g), probably the best supported, and these don’t require much but unlocking the bootloader to use the installer which does just about all the work. The installer uses Fastboot underneath but you don’t have to type anything in. Just click and go.
https://devices.ubuntu-touch.io/installer/
Cool, Thank you!
There is no OFF switch.
They always are listening.
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