Facebook wants to 'listen' to your music and TV

Post by mwill » Thu, May 22, 2014, 1:31 PM UTC

Karunamon wrote: post #16

Oh, you mean scrobbling? That thing last.fm has done forever? And it only activates when you go into the status update UI? Sad that there's not a single, not even one positive mention of this feature here. I'm starting to think this whole privacy thing has turned a lot of you into luddites. I'm serious. The highest rated fucking comment is a post that takes a line from 1984 and replaces "telescreen" with "iphone". Ye…

Post by happyscrappy » Thu, May 22, 2014, 1:33 PM UTC

bdg wrote: post #12

I think I read about this in a book once... "The iPhone received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it, moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the helpful sign suggested, he could be seen as well as heard. There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being checked-in on social media any given mo…

Post by illuminate » Thu, May 22, 2014, 1:38 PM UTC

k-mcgrady wrote: post #19

Seems like this thread is full of people typing while wearing tinfoil hats. They have added a feature which works the same way Shazam et al do. You want to share what you're listening to? Press a button, the mic gets activated, and Facebook ID's the song for you to save you typing it out and searching yourself. They are not listening to you all the time, even when you're in the Facebook app.

Post by Create » Thu, May 22, 2014, 1:40 PM UTC

happyscrappy wrote: post #24

bdg wrote: post #12

I think I read about this in a book once... "The iPhone received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it, moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the helpful sign suggested, he could be seen as well as heard. There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being checked-in on social media any given mo…

It is fairly ironic that you use iPhone in your example considering that with side loading and permission over reach any talented hacker can access an Android phone to the level you describe while you would almost have to be a nation state to pull it off on a non-jailbroken iPhone.

Post by untog » Thu, May 22, 2014, 1:42 PM UTC

happyscrappy wrote: post #24

bdg wrote: post #12

I think I read about this in a book once... "The iPhone received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it, moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the helpful sign suggested, he could be seen as well as heard. There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being checked-in on social media any given mo…

It is fairly ironic that you use iPhone in your example considering that with side loading and permission over reach any talented hacker can access an Android phone to the level you describe while you would almost have to be a nation state to pull it off on a non-jailbroken iPhone.