Recently, CNMO learned from foreign media that a large ** company in the United States has been claiming that it can turn on the microphone of your mobile phone and eavesdrop on your chat.
Cox Media Group (CMG), the marketing arm of a cable giant, has reportedly been marketing a feature called "active listening" to its customers with the slogan "It's real, your device is listening to you." Its ** file claims: With active listening, CMG can eavesdrop on your voice;With active listening, CMG can use voice data to deliver your ads to the people you're looking for.
CMG says it uses "third-party vendor products" that collect data from users who agree to the terms and conditions of various apps and social networks. The company said it does not listen to conversations or obtain any other information other than "third-party aggregated, anonymized and fully encrypted datasets" that can be used for ad serving.
According to foreign media, CMG uses artificial intelligence to obtain relevant conversations from people from smartphones, smart TVs and other devices. At the same time, the service claims that it can use web search results from services such as Stream*** and Audio, Google, Bing, and YouTube to serve ads to these customers. CMG claims that this is legit because most people don't bother to read the lengthy and boring terms and conditions when it comes to updating apps on their devices.
Some Apple fans believe that this is not possible on iPhone, only the Android system has this problem. But Google says it's also not possible to do what the CMG says on Android, which prevents apps from collecting audio when not being actively used, and displays a prominent icon in the status bar whenever the app activates the device's microphone.
In fact, both the Apple and Android apps will display a green indicator in the top right corner of the screen when the microphone is in use. If you swipe down and tap the indicator, you can see which app or service is using your camera or microphone.
It is reported that CMG has currently removed the service's advertising pages because it is illegal in most parts of Europe and the United States.