Google & Facebook partner admits it can listen to device microphone to serve ads - Dexerto
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A media firm has admitted that it can target adverts based on what you said out loud near device microphones.

why does it need to be device agnostic?

That’s just what CMG claimed to have.

But to be useful for an advertising network, it kinda needs to be installable on everything. And if it failed to suppress the mic LED on a single device, it would be very easily noticed?

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