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In Leak, Facebook Partner Brags About Listening to Your Phone’s Microphone to Serve Ads for Stuff You Mention (futurism.com)
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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 13 points 2 months ago

Cambridge Analytica, but only because what they were doing was so monumentally illegal. I'm sure the government would have let them get away with it if they could have thought of a way out for them. A lot of them mates were involved in that scandal.