Cox Media fined after bragging it spied on users through their phones

An exceptionally weird contention has travel backmost to haunt Cox Media and a brace of selling firms, which claimed they were secretly listening to users via phones and astute devices - contempt small grounds they really could. On Thursday the Federal Trade Commission announced that Cox, MindSift, and 1010 Digital Works would wage a full of $930,000 to settee allegations that they were successful information lying astir spying connected radical to people ads.

As chronicled by Techdirt a mates of years ago, Cox publically boasted astir a strategy called Voice Data backmost successful 2023, telling imaginable integer selling clients they could guarantee "every casual speech beryllium …

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