Is Facebook eavesdropping on phone conversations?
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Re: Is Facebook eavesdropping on phone conversations?
#2Yes.
(It's electronic communications, your assumption should be, without a doubt, that someone is listening, seeing, hearing.)
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#3“That is kind of weird,” she laughed. “I’m still not so sure this isn’t just coincidence. I don’t think Facebook is really listening to our conversations.”
This is a terrible article. There's an easy way to figure out if it's a coincidence... repeat the experiment.
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#4Wouldn't it be possible to determine this by jailbreaking + decrypting the facebook .ipa, in a combination with watching the network traffic?
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#5No.
This is one of those tech urban legends that keeps popping up. Facebook does have an opt-in feature that can identify what music, tv show or movie you are listening to or watching, but that's it.
http://newsroom.fb.com/news/2014/05/a-new-optional-way-to-sh...
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#6For me, this is one step too far. If my phone is just laying around, it should not record the sound in the room and send it to Facebook by default. Sounds like a fake story, would be worried if this is true.
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#7The impact on battery life alone would be insane if this wee true I'm guessing.
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#8Yes. (It's electronic communications, your assumption should be, without a doubt, that someone is listening, seeing, hearing.)
If you RTFA you'd see the claim is that Facebook is activating the microphone to listen to non-electronic verbal communication you're having nearby your phone.
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#9No. This is one of those tech urban legends that keeps popping up. Facebook does have an opt-in feature that can identify what music, tv show or movie you are listening to or watching, but that's it. http://newsroom.fb.com/news/2014/05/a-new-optional-way-to-sh... https://www.facebook.com/help/iphone-app/369513256545845
See Betteridge's law [0]
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
Re: Is Facebook eavesdropping on phone conversations?
#10Pro Tip: Just use the mobile web version of Facebook.