FTC v. Cox Media Group

Cox Media Group (CMG) and two smaller marketing firms, MindSift LLC and 1010 Digital Works LLC, allegedly deceived customers by falsely claiming to offer an AI-powered service named "Active Listening" that could target localized ads based on conversations captured from consumers’ smart devices and that consumers had opted into such targeting. According to the FTC, the marketing service was not based on voice data, and consumers had not opted into this service. The service instead consisted of reselling email lists obtained from other data brokers. Additionally, MindSift and 1010 Digital Works were also charged with violating the FTC Act by providing CMG with the means and instrumentalities to deceive customers.

Summary generated from official Federal Trade Commission press release