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In Leak, Facebook Partner Brags About Listening to Your Phone’s Microphone to Serve Ads for Stuff You Mention
  • If you look at the slideshow, cox media group doesn't claim to be the ones harvesting the data, only to be processing it using AI to then provide that aggregate information to advertisers. Which makes sense, they literally have no means to directly collect voice data from you

    Also no offense but, I thought lemmy users were a little bit better than this whole "read headline, make assumptions, storm to comments" thing that Reddit loves to do

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    Google threatened tech influencers unless they ‘preferred’ the Pixel
  • Google’s official Pixel review program for publications like The Verge requires no such stipulations. (And, to be clear, The Verge would never accept such terms, in accordance with our ethics policy.)

    So then, what is Team Pixel, exactly? Officially, it’s a program handled by PR agency 1000heads that seeds early units to influencers and superfans to drum up interest as brand ambassadors. While Google partners with 1000heads, it doesn’t directly run the program, and there are distinct differences from the traditional reviews program. For example, journalists and influencers in the official reviews program often get briefed and given products under embargo before or during an event. Team Pixel participants get the devices shortly after launch but before the public — all in exchange for some coverage on social media. For smaller creators, this can be a big leg up in terms of access.

    extremely critical context here, this is kind of a non story tbh

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    Detroit judge bullied teen in courtroom, turning her into a spectacle
  • King told WXYZ that he spoke to the girl’s parents and offered to be a mentor.

    this guy really thinks he's smartest, wisest guy in the room doesn't he

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    NYC's ice cream museum is sued by a man who says he broke his ankle jumping into the sprinkle pool
  • I was mostly joking about the context of the accident like, if someone asks why im wearing a cast, "sprained my ankle jumping into the sprinkle pool at the ice cream factory" would def get stuck in my throat coming out

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