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How often do you record other people?
I said about I don't do it anymore, I'm not sure what you are trying to ask here.
As for you, there's nothing morally wrong in wanting to not be trapped by a liar. And it doesn't magically become morally wrong if you walk into a two-party state.
Another anecdotal-data-of-sample-size-one, my wife was at a bar and struck up a conversation with another person to whom she had no connections. After she left, Facebook suggested this person as a friend. The other person may have searched for her on Facebook, causing her to be listed as a possible friend. Or perhaps Facebook uses location data to group people that are in the same location for an extended period of t…
Why do people keep the Facebook app installed? I use it in the web browser and it works just fine, while sort of sandboxing it within Chrome.
I think that the mobile site is the lowest priority interface.
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Unless Heard has stopped working then this is not 100% true http://www.heardapp.com/ It may put a banner on the top bar but I've used this app and it worked just fine.
Very off-topic but what is your real-world use case for such an app? The site lists a couple but most of those seem to make more sense when using a recording app in the traditional, explicit, way (e.g. "we are having a meeting, I will record this meeting").
For that matter, I'd love the same concept with video, if there was a way to always record what I'm seeing without having to think about it in advance or wear a camera on my face, to capture anything interesting that happens to me, I'd be interested. I remember a story about an exec at Microsoft installing implants in his head for this purpose.
I'm terrified of anyone but me having access to this kind of data, though. It's nobody's business but mine.
Don't know about HeardApp, but I automatically assume the primary use case is for the company's benefit and not mine. Is it installing SilverPush on my phone and listening for things besides me to cross-reference and track my activity? I don't know...
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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.
No. I work for Facebook. This doesn't happen.
It makes me cringe so bad that many HackerNews commentators believe this nonsense. This is why I don't tell friends and family that I use HackerNews.
“That is kind of weird,” she laughed. “I’m still not so sure this isn’t just coincidence. I don’t think Facebook is really listening to our conversations.”
Another anecdotal-data-of-sample-size-one, my wife was at a bar and struck up a conversation with another person to whom she had no connections. After she left, Facebook suggested this person as a friend. The other person may have searched for her on Facebook, causing her to be listed as a possible friend. Or perhaps Facebook uses location data to group people that are in the same location for an extended period of t…
Another anecdotal-data-of-sample-size-one, my wife was at a bar and struck up a conversation with another person to whom she had no connections. After she left, Facebook suggested this person as a friend. The other person may have searched for her on Facebook, causing her to be listed as a possible friend. Or perhaps Facebook uses location data to group people that are in the same location for an extended period of t…
A similar instance on my part: I started working at a new job last year, but didn't add that information to my Facebook account or any other online account (even LinkedIn, which I trust even less than FB). Within a week all of my new coworkers started showing up as suggested friends. Now here's the fun part: My government job has a strict electronic device security policy, and employees are forbidden from carrying ce…
No. One or two looked you up, and they're connected to all of the others. That's how this works.
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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…
Hmm, but Larry Page is specifically addressing PRISM. And your Wired link agrees with him. And from what I remember, it wasn't so much "documents signed by NSA/CIA officials" as "an internal powerpoint slide". 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?
Yes, google started encrypting the intra-datacenter traffic once it learned what the NSA was doing.
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This is a solid example, in relation to the OP comment. Since you didn't know her name. But...there is still a possibility that you had mutual friends and her face popped up. I used FB a lot and FB cycles many friends multiple times, in the hope that someone connects with you. I'm really good a remembering faces and well, this was what happened to me, numerous times. I might not knew the person in January but in July…
We had no mutual friends. I actually have 0 friends on Facebook. I use it as a media outlet. All my recommended friends come from my iOS Contacts, by phone number. So the fact she popped up is absurd