Have you ever had this experience? You’re sitting somewhere, maybe at home or maybe out somewhere, and you’re talking to a friend about some particular topic. Then moments later you open your phone and there are new ads which are directly influenced by the thing you’d just been talking about.
If you do a Google search on this topic you’ll find innumerable articles all basically saying that this doesn’t happen. But if you look hard enough you’ll also find this story from last December:
It’s been a long-held suspicion by many people: that smartphones and smart speakers are listening in on their private conversations for various reasons.
Now one company — Atlanta-based Cox Media Group — has revealed that yes, your devices are listening to you. Indeed, CMG touted its ability to identify “relevant conversations via smartphones, smart TVs and other devices” using AI to let local…
