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Engineers have access to code repositories.
all repositories?
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I agree that the nature of the article is bad but still I would not be surprised to hear that Facebook is listening to phone conversations. That's why I don't use it. :P
I work for Facebook. This does not happen. If it does, I can assure you that one of the many thousands of engineers will speak out.
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I wonder if good E2E encryption of the WhatsApp message rules out the app sending, in parallel, an indexed list of juicy keywords (encrypted or not) to FB servers for the purpose of targeting ads.
So you're saying the client indexes your words locally and then e2e encrypts and sends to the person whom you're conversing with? Is that feasible client-side without burning all your battery?
However, a secondary stream from the app to a different endpoint would be detectable, so there are other practical challenges to the GP's scenario.
[1] https://www.usenix.org/event/usenix10/tech/full_papers/Carro...
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I agree that the nature of the article is bad but still I would not be surprised to hear that Facebook is listening to phone conversations. That's why I don't use it. :P
I work for Facebook. This does not happen. If it does, I can assure you that one of the many thousands of engineers will speak out.
When it comes to "speaking out"... NSA started surveillance projects long before Edward Snowden was employed. There will always be people who will develop things like this and who will not speak out. It's just a matter of correctly selecting these few people.
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This could be rigorously studied. A group of people could attempt to plant false advertising opportunities in their speech and then measure the frequency at which related ads/posts arrive in their feed. I would trust something like this more than an assertion by FB that this is not happening.
I think that if Facebook was caught doing this after they specifically denied it, then executives would probably be going to jail. I think if Facebook say they aren't doing this, then they aren't doing it.
No. Denying is the only smart move here.
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That's what they say. One of the urban legends was also that USA government agencies don't collect data at bulk and they were lying about it. We know the truth now. Facebook has been caught with the hand in the cookie jar too many times already and got away with it. Fuck Facebook.
And every time they say "Whoopsie, it was just a bug - we'll fix it!". And then they don't. Or they come back 3 years later and say "Hey everyone, remember that 'bug' you caught earlier? We're going to make it into a beautiful feature now!".
Maybe they aren't listening to the conversations per se, but for an audio beacons in television and radio?
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/11/your-p...
The only way around this restriction would be using a private API Apple could have provided. Given that Apple has even integrated some aspects of Facebook into iOS, this is not totally impossible, but it's hard to imagine Apple having an incentive in allowing Facebook to passively record and transmit all user audio. To date, Apple actually seem to be pretty good at protecting user's privacy.
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No. I work for Facebook. This doesn't happen.
Heh that's a funny thing to say. I remember when one of the first Snowdens revelations came up, Larry Page wrote a blog post on official Google blog: https://googleblog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/what.html saying they don't cooparate with NSA. The same week we were provided documents signed by NSA/CIA officials claiming that Google is not even forced to do it, they provided extra interface for NSA so they can grab data w…
Didn't the NSA hack Google's own internal fiber? Why would they need to do that if they had the keys to the kingdom anyway?
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> Facebook are spying on you and how their apps have all these permissions to use your camera and phone audio. And it's not just the Facebook apps. The Facebook SDK is widely embedded into many other apps Facebook SDK (it's the most popular SDK on iOS for example, according to data published from Cocoapods - https://gist.github.com/ryanolsonk/e33bf9e89677da9fe8ce ). It's so popular because Facebook is basically the m…
Facebook is you spying on yourself, by posting it all that info.