Facebook wants to 'listen' to your music and TV
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#2"Can be turned off at any time" means "will never be turned off by 99.99% of our users".
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#3It amazes me that people are so willing to give these "services" so much access to their lives. It creeped me out when facebook used to ask me what I thought about a place I had been to. This is a whole new level of creepy, why don't people care?
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#4Beside the privacy concerns, it's sad that most people feel the need to share every little detail of their life with everyone, 24/7. What's the point?
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#5So what happens when the MPAA buys access to the data and cross references everybody that is watching Game of Thrones with the HBO subscriber list?
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#6I'm about ready to ditch my phone and swap it for a Morse key.
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#7It amazes me that people are so willing to give these "services" so much access to their lives. It creeped me out when facebook used to ask me what I thought about a place I had been to. This is a whole new level of creepy, why don't people care?
It's not really a new level. People have been doing it with Last.fm since before Facebook existed.
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#8Beside the privacy concerns, it's sad that most people feel the need to share every little detail of their life with everyone, 24/7. What's the point?
Branding (signalling). Same reason people post pictures of their desserts with the restaurant's name, announce party affiliation, and tell you about a band you have never heard.
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#9Facebook wants to listen to your brainwaves but are thwarted by reality. So far.
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#10"Can be turned off at any time" means "will never be turned off by 99.99% of our users".
"...it starts currently as opt-in". Not a massive fan of that "currently".
I don't own a smartphone and deleted my FB account years ago, but this still makes me squirm.