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FTC to Require Cox Media Group, Two Other Firms to Pay Nearly $1 Million to Settle Charges They Deceived Customers About “Active Listening” AI-Powered Marketing Service (opens in new tab)

Covered by 10 sources including Simon Willison's Newsletter, The VergeDiscussed on Hacker News and Lobsters

Covered in 15 articles

Simon Willison's Newsletter·

Datasette Agent: an AI assistant for Datasette built on LLM

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

Discussed on Hacker News

FTC Settles With Cox Media Group and Two Others Who Lied About Using Device Microphones to Collect Ad Targeting Data

Media giant settles for $930k with FTC over allegations it lied about eavesdropping on conversations through smart devices

FTC Fines Marketers Nearly $1 Million for Not Actually Listening to People’s Conversations

Simon Willison’s Weblog·

FTC to Require Cox Media Group, Two Other Firms to Pay Nearly $1 Million to Settle Charges They Deceived Customers About “Active Listening” AI-Powered Marketing Service

Malware Analysis, News and Indicators·

Company bragged phone mics could listen to conversations. They couldn’t

Yahoo Finance·

Cox Media Group reach settlement with FTC over fake AI ad service

Company bragged phone mics could listen to conversations. They couldn’t.

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