Have you ever had a conversation with someone about an item only to have eerily familiar adverts come up on your iPhone or Android afterward? If so, one marketing agency has been bragging about its ability to sell this kind of data to other companies, but its blog advertising the feature has mysteriously gone dark.
As originally pointed out by 404 Media, CMG (Cox Media Group) Local Solutions calls it Active Listening and specifically references conversations like “Do I see mold on the ceiling?” or “We need a better mortgage rate” as the data it would sell to other companies. On the original page, 404 found the following paragraph:
