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Marketing Company Claims That It Actually Is Listening to Your Phone and Smart Speakers to Target Ads (www.404media.co)

submitted 11 months ago by minnix@lemux.minnix.dev to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 40 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The part of CMG advertising the capability is CMG Local Solutions. CMG itself is owned by Apollo Global Management and Cox Enterprises, which includes the ISP Cox Communications. CMG operates a wide array of local news television and radio stations.

[–] thesmokingman@programming.dev 22 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Cox Enterprises isn’t some random company. It’s one of the largest privately owned companies in the US. They are somewhat capable of doing things like this.

Having experience with Cox Enterprises, it’s just a massive amalgamation of disparate acquisitions that have never been remotely brought together in a meaningful way so it is a slightly dubious claim. This would require much more coordination across entities than I feel is possible with the CMG I knew of pre-pandemic.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

Nah, if you hired a team, it wouldn't matter how divided they were. In fact, them being frantic is probably how we're hearing about it. They needed to advertise their services without looking at the big picture.