111–120 of 415 posts
Couldn't somebody decompile the android or iOS app and try to find evidence for one way or the other?
They're listening, but not to your voice or with a microphone. Facebook is listening to your data--to all of our data, all at once. They have locations, searches, clicks, messaging, photos, hashtags, and any other form of browsing patterns for everyone in your country, everyone in your neighboorhood, everyone in the same room as you. They have enough data with such advanced analysis that on occasion they can get real…
I took advantage of the option to see why I was shown the ad, and was told demographic information, as well as a data partnership with DLX. I would like to know if others who see and ad they suspect was displayed due to microphone captured data have this DLX data supplier source in common.
> "I run ads product at Facebook. We don't - and have never - used your microphone for ads. Just not true," Mr Goldman wrote. Personally, I am so used to corp speak and word play by major companies that it is difficult to take anything at face value. Therefore, I think the nature of the question asked to Facebook should be different. It should be on what they do rather do they do X. So, here's my question - "What doe…
I was about to leave an extremely similar comment, but I was going to frame it in terms of the NSA "direct access" story. I got the impression from that story that immediate denials from tech companies, which seemed categorical, turned out to hinge on which magic words were used. In this case, when I read a sentence like "We don't use your microphone for ads" I end up doing that game where you re-read the sentence ov…
This requires infrastructure at a really large scale I don't think even FaceBook can sigh up for that. And if they have a legal department, which I assume they do and a functional one, those ideas would be killed before it moves to implementation.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
"We don't gather data using microphones"
But they most likely do. Voice corpora are extremely useful to train voice recognition systems, for one.
However, I still turn off microphone access for facebook and instagram. It's probably not fool proof, but it can't hurt.
They're listening, but not to your voice or with a microphone. Facebook is listening to your data--to all of our data, all at once. They have locations, searches, clicks, messaging, photos, hashtags, and any other form of browsing patterns for everyone in your country, everyone in your neighboorhood, everyone in the same room as you. They have enough data with such advanced analysis that on occasion they can get real…
It would be great to really inspect the traffic and see if this is really the case. Independent of what Facebook claims.
Either way, I am happy I have deleted it off my phone. I have never been happier each day not reading garbage and actually focusing my time on apps that improve my life and move my life forward.