Ars TechnicaNo, a marketing firm isn’t tapping your device to hear private conversations
"Real-time" listening claims were exaggerated, but the creepy factor remains.
Keith Ivey@arstechnica So CMG was blatantly scamming its customers by claiming to do things it wasn't able to, and damaging the reputations of companies that have voice assistants or other apps that have access to the microphone, which it claimed were helping it invade people's privacy? It's certainly believable that a marketing firm would do that, though the original story isn't exactly impossible.