Sitting near the phone or TV, the company can secretly listen to your gossip!
Sitting near the phone or TV, the company can secretly listen to your gossip! When is your own phone dangerous for you? Overuse or phone becomes a medium to listen to your conversation? Recently, a company called Cox Media Group (CMG) has claimed that it can listen to user conversations through smartphones, smart TVs or other devices. The company claims to have developed a technology capable of displaying advertisements based on user conversations. According to media organization 404 Media, CMG has named it as active listening technique. The company also posted a blog on its website and gave brief information about the capabilities and uses of this technology. Now the blog post has been deleted by the company. (Click here to read the blog archive written by the company.) The blog post mentions that this technology uses microphone data from smartphones and other devices for advertising. In other words, the company claims that it can listen to the pre-purchase conversation of the user t