{
  "id": 16592274,
  "title": "Is Your Phone Listening To You? Why Ads Sometimes Seem To Know What You Said",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/26/is-your-phone-listening-to-you-why-ads-sometimes-seem-to-know-what",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-26T10:31:04.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Press Journal",
    "slug": "free-press-journal",
    "url": "https://www.freepressjournal.in/tech/is-your-phone-listening-to-you-why-ads-sometimes-seem-to-know-what-you-said"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "You mention a mattress at dinner and an ad for one appears by breakfast. It's one of the most widespread suspicions about smartphones. Your phone is almost certainly not recording conversations to sell you things. The explanation is less spooky and, in some ways, more unsettling. The case that seemed to prove it In 2023, Cox Media Group marketed a product called \"Active Listening,\" pitched to…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}