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Facebook Could Be Eavesdropping On Your Phone Calls (news10.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Facebook is not just looking at user's personal information, interests, and online habits but also to your private conversations, revealed a new report. According to NBC report, this may be the case as Kelli Burns, a professor at University of South Florida states, "I don't think that people realize how much Facebook is tracking every move we're making online. Anything that you're doing on your phone, Facebook is watching." the professor said. Now how do you prove that? Professor Kelli tested out her theory by enabling the microphone feature, and talked about her desire to go on a safari, informing about the mode of transport she would take. "I'm really interested in going on an African safari. I think it'd be wonderful to ride in one of those jeeps," she said aloud, phone in hand. The results were shocking, as less than 60 seconds later, the first post on her Facebook feed was about a safari story out of nowhere, which was then revealed that the story had been posted three hours earlier. And, after mentioning a jeep, a car ad also appeared on her page. On a support page, Facebook explains how this feature works: "No, we don't record your conversations. If you choose to turn on this feature, we'll only use your microphone to identify the things you're listening to or watching based on the music and TV matches we're able to identify. If this feature is turned on, it's only active when you're writing a status update." I wonder how many people are actually aware of this.
how to turn this off????
Displaying an ad based on a word I say is the biggest waste of advertising money I can think of.
The determined Real Programmer can write Fortran programs in any language.
Youtube polls your microphone with its HTML5 player.
The pendulum has swung far enough, we need take back our right to privacy. Make it the default setting and not the other way around.
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for a feed of this stuff? It's a wet dream for those folks.
I am constantly more and more happy with my decision to tell this company to eff off and refuse to use their products at any level.
If you choose to turn on this feature, we'll only use your microphone to identify the things you're listening to or watching based on the music and TV matches we're able to identify. If this feature is turned on, it's only active when you're writing a status update
Did the person who wrote this actually read what they wrote? If they're identifying what users are listening to and matching them to something else, then that's still a record, even if it's not an audio recording.
I gave up the Facebook app years ago. m.facebook.com gives all the functionality I need; I don't even miss it...and it takes far less data than the app.
The site, itself, admits in an online statement, “We use your microphone to identify the things you’re listening to or watching, based on the music and TV matches we’re able to identify.” But, experts contend that the site is going a step further. In what some users are calling an alarming trend, described as “Big Brother,”
Do we need anymore proof?
This is unconscionable.
We play the game with the bravery of being out of range
Facebook Could Be Eavesdropping On Your Phone Calls
Facebook is not just looking at [...] your private conversations
Dodgy grammar aside, they either could be or they are. Which is it? If you sure enough to state it as fact in the summary, why not do so in the headline?
revealed a new report.
Reveals. It's news, not olds!
According to NBC report, this maybe
May. Be. Two words.
the case as Kelli Burns a professor at University of South Florida states
Take a breath!
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I got my wife one of those $50 Amazon tablets recently. Removing the Facebook app increased her battery life by close to 60%. A significant part of the reason I paid the money for the Sunshine crack to own my Android phone was to get the Facebook app off my phone all together. The storage space it doesn't deserve, the battery life and bandwidth it hogs, not to mention the spying is way more trouble than Facebook is worth.
Sure, now I still have to deal with the Google and Amazon spying, but one bridge at a time.
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No we're not "permanently" recording your full conversations, we're only temporarily transmitting a copy to our servers where robots listen and take detailed notes and then we use those notes about what you talked about for commercial purposes. I mean, what's wrong with that? What could possibly go wrong with a huge commercial database of notes on every conversation you've ever had in private?
It's INSANE that these stories don't get more serious coverage and genuine outrage.
Oh but you agreed to it in writing, it's all legal, it's a 21st century clip joint, you don't like it well tough beans.
Is this with just phone in range of voice, on a regular network voice call or on a Facebook voice call. Either way all that shit needs turned off. Not really for them listening for key words to display ads that will be ignored anyway, but for the extra power this will be using. Every milliamp is at a premium these days.
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I've had this happen before on a subject that had just come up and I hadn't googled / FB posted about yet. I've also seen other stories like this floating around the net like "my dad and I were discussing XYZ (a specific vacation, illness, etc) then got a FB ad for it soon after".
Privacy is intruded upon when you're minding your own business and someone else takes information about you. The Facebook app is something you install and set up to give information about you to Facebook, which is as much of an intrusion as a guy walking into an open store to buy something and being overheard by the sales clerk.
It's the bomb.
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Why would this be a surprise to people? I thought it was well established that these companies glean information from you to make money and that they felt completely justified in doing so because they don't charge you for anything. Imagine how much confidential information they gather... I know for a fact people at my place of business use these services for work conference calls. I consider it totally irresponsible to subject a friend to it unknowingly, never mind using the services for work purposes.
Laws are rules for the court, but merely a bottom bar to hit for life. Think beyond laws in your actions always.
Did the person who wrote this actually read what they wrote? If they're identifying what users are listening to and matching them to something else, then that's still a record, even if it's not an audio recording.
No, they only captured metadata.
"Facebook Could Be Eavesdropping On Your Phone Calls"
Translation:
"Facebook Is Eavesdropping On Your Phone Calls"
After all of the egregious privacy abuses by Facebook that have already been uncovered, why this would surprise anyone is beyond me. OF COURSE they're eavesdropping on your conversations, you idiots. You should have assumed this a long time ago.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
I suggest everyone turn this on and just say to themselves things such as wanting to assassinate prominent political figures, join ISIS, scream anti-Western slogans, praise Kim Jung Un, etc. Make the application useless. This is a similar idea to the "bait signatures" that people used to have for the NSA.
Don't let them.
Don't be stupid, of course they are!
If you are using Facebook at all, then 100% of everything you do, everything you post, every mouse click, every sound you make, is being surveilled, stored, processed, evaluated, monetized, sent or sold off to 'partner' companies, and likely being sent wholesale to one or more government agencies. If you believe otherwise then you are tragically naive.
WHY ARE YOU STILL USING FACEBOOK???
Are YOU using the TOOL, or is the TOOL using YOU? Think about it!
This is one of the many reasons I stopped using social media sites such as Facebook. If people knew the security holes on Facebook that allow others to easily see information despite their privacy settings they would lose their shit.
A friend complained about his new coat having all sorts of shit dangling from it and I suggested he should use a wire cutter to cut all those dangling bits.
You do NOT want to know what kind of shit I had to see not a minute later!!!
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
So what? It only uses the voice data to show specific advertisements. This does not differ from the way that Facebook has used text data since the beginning.
I know that this is kind of politically incorrect to say in Slashdot (and that's what makes saying it fun), but I claim that the benefits of Facebook still outweigh its drawbacks. My life is too short to ponder about some datamining. My data goes only through the advertisement engine and is not read by humans.
The real danger is that if NSA has a hotline to the data. That is nothing specific to Facebook, though.
Android Marshmallow gives you the option to deny specific permissions an app asks for. I was kinda surprised at how many wanted access to the microphone and camera (that weren't sound or camera apps). It's getting to the point where I'm starting to think a mute button (physically disconnects the wires to your mic) and a physical cover to slide over any camera lenses are becoming a necessity.
The problem is people doing everything on their stupid phones, which make it very difficult, if not impossible, to track what's going on. At least with a real browser on a real computer, you can control the data that's being shared.
I don't respond to AC's.
First step - teach the next generation.
I'm raising a daughter, who at 6 knew what privacy is, what is and is not reasonable for other people to know about her, etc.
We rolled it into stranger awareness, because it makes sense to group social engineering awareness, stranger awareness and privacy issues together in my opinion. Only issue we have is occasionally she got upset because her teacher used her last name in class, but that's easier to correct for.
Seriously, every time we course-correct society successfully we start with the kids. If I teach my kid, she'll teach her friends, and her friends will teach their parents. Eventually the problem resolves itself by attrition.
On the whole, I find that I prefer Slashdot posts to twitter ones because I don't get limited to 140 chars before
I never met a data I didn't like.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
I use FB on my phone... via a mobile browser. One that I only use for FB. I have a separate browser I use for websurfing. I don't let the FB browser post notifications or have access to my location. I lose a few features that way, but I can still participate in "social media" without giving FB total access to my phone and life.
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Anyone who gets duped into buying a computer they cannot control, running programs they cannot inspect, and trusting people and companies who long ago proved themselves to be untrustworthy, and is willing to pay for the privilege of buying and operating it, simply because the gadget is called a "telephone" and not a telescreen or spy computer, should expect such treatment.
I am amazed at how many free software advocates have given in to peer pressure and bought one of those insidious devices. Aren't you taking Stallman seriously?
So their response to "I'm worried you may be monitoring my calls" is "Oh don't worry about that, we monitor you even when you aren't making calls"?
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It's the only way to prevent shenanigans like this.
"I was wondering what it would be like to hire a prostitute."
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Install a Framework like XPrivacy and have a look, if it actually does. No rumors, facts!
I have given up on my phone being secure. I treat it like its a child now.
Unfortunately I put Amazon app on my phone and now I can't change the permissions or remove it. I am going to have to change phone service I think to remove it