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Cox deletes ‘Active Listening’ ad pitch after boasting that it eavesdrops though our phones
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This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Because it would result in a scandal and it seems easily discoverable (by professional investigators/engineers). I don't know. It's likely done on a small, targeted, scale, but can't imagine this rolled out on a large scale. Too little gain for the potential lashback, quite some factors need to be right, too.