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May 22, 2026

Cox Media Group Sold 'Active Listening' AI Ads — It Was a Lie, and the FTC Just Fined Them $930K

Cox Media Group pitched advertisers on an AI service that supposedly listened to consumers through their smart devices and used those overheard conver...

May 10, 2026

Your Cannabis Dispensary Was Watching You — and Selling What It Saw

Stiiizy, California's largest cannabis retailer, secretly embedded tracking tools across its websites to monitor customer behavior, then sold that dat...

May 7, 2026

The FTC Finally Stopped a Data Broker From Selling Your Location Data — Here's What Kochava Was Doing

For nearly four years, the FTC fought data broker Kochava in court over its sale of precise location data from hundreds of millions of mobile devices....

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