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Cox deletes ‘Active Listening’ ad pitch after boasting that it eavesdrops though our phones (www.fastcompany.com)

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[-] hasnt_seen_goonies@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

It would show the encrypted out bound traffic right? You wouldn't be able to identify it by reading the bits, but you could by the volume and not doing anything else.

[-] KeepFlying@lemmy.world -1 points 10 months ago

Maybe. They might do some processing locally and just upload as text so it might be easy to batch the data, making the upload volume and pattern less obvious.

It also saves them network bandwidth so I'm sure that would motivate them too. Uploading raw mic data from all TVs would be expensive.

[-] Quexotic@infosec.pub 2 points 10 months ago

You're getting down voted, but this seems the most likely. TTS is trivial anymore.

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