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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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[–] Tremont@lemmings.world 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

For that I think they use special hardware, that's the reason that you can't modify the calling word, and they still notify you when the voice assistant is disabled. I don't know if this is actually true, or the companies try to hide behind this, or I just remember it incorrectly.

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 11 months ago

That same hardware couldn't also have a brand added as a code word for ad, like say "pepsi?"