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This is somewhat anecdotal but with the latest iOS and Facebook app versions, Facebook doesn't even show up on the list of apps that have requested to use my microphone. Unless they found some exploit to bypass Apple's restrictions and use my microphone without even asking for permission, I seriously doubt they're listening to users.
It's not just listening. Facebook once showed me an ad for sneakers after mine were stolen, thus proving that Facebook sent somebody to steal them.
- Mark Zuckerberg
>Myth: The feature listens to and stores your conversations.
>Fact: Nope, no matter how interesting your conversation, this feature does not store sound or recordings. Facebook isn’t listening to or storing your conversations.
>Here’s how it works: if you choose to turn the feature on, when you write a status update, the app converts any sound into an audio fingerprint on your phone. This fingerprint is sent to our servers to try and match it against our database of audio and TV fingerprints. By design, we do not store fingerprints from your device for any amount of time. And in any event, the fingerprints can’t be reversed into the original audio because they don’t contain enough information.
>Myth: Facebook is always listening using your microphone.
>Fact: Nope, if you choose to turn this feature on, it will only use your microphone (for 15 seconds) when you’re actually writing a status update to try and match music and TV.
http://newsroom.fb.com/news/2014/05/a-new-optional-way-to-sh... (via http://www.computerworld.com/article/2490090/social-media/ba...)
Facebook's explanation: >Myth: The feature listens to and stores your conversations. >Fact: Nope, no matter how interesting your conversation, this feature does not store sound or recordings. Facebook isn’t listening to or storing your conversations. >Here’s how it works: if you choose to turn the feature on, when you write a status update, the app converts any sound into an audio fingerprint on your phone. This fing…
It's not just listening. Facebook once showed me an ad for sneakers after mine were stolen, thus proving that Facebook sent somebody to steal them.
Facebook's explanation: >Myth: The feature listens to and stores your conversations. >Fact: Nope, no matter how interesting your conversation, this feature does not store sound or recordings. Facebook isn’t listening to or storing your conversations. >Here’s how it works: if you choose to turn the feature on, when you write a status update, the app converts any sound into an audio fingerprint on your phone. This fing…
That's an explanation for one single feature. They never mention if other code in the app has the ability to snoop on conversations.
I fired up Chrome on my already opened MBP, typed IMDB in the search bar and the first result was IMDB Gotham.
I'm not going to speculate, but the coincidence was indeed surprising.
Facebook's explanation: >Myth: The feature listens to and stores your conversations. >Fact: Nope, no matter how interesting your conversation, this feature does not store sound or recordings. Facebook isn’t listening to or storing your conversations. >Here’s how it works: if you choose to turn the feature on, when you write a status update, the app converts any sound into an audio fingerprint on your phone. This fing…
That's an explanation for one single feature. They never mention if other code in the app has the ability to snoop on conversations.
Possibility 1 : Facebook is snooping on your conversations.
Possibility 2: Their machine learning algorithms are getting creepily good at predicting your wants and needs.
Both are scary.