Posted on 05/10/2023 6:02:38 AM PDT by Red Badger
Twitter CEO Elon Musk warned users of the Facebook-owned WhatsApp that it is secretly accessing their device microphones without their knowledge and violating their privacy.
Twitter’s director of engineering, Foad Dabri, posted a photo documenting his WhatsApp timeline which showed Zuckerberg’s messaging app was accessing his phone’s mic while he was asleep.
Elon Musk responded to the tweet, simply stating, “WhatsApp cannot be trusted.”
The WhatsApp Company later responded to the Twitter post claiming it had reached out to the Twitter engineer about the issue.
As expected, the company would not accept any blame and attempted to write the issue off as a simple bug, adding they had asked Google to investigate.
“We believe this is a bug on Android that misattributes information in their Privacy Dashboard and have asked Google to investigate and remediate,” the company said.
But the issues with privacy with platforms like Facebook and WhatsApp are becoming more of a concern for Americans.
Four years after Mark Zuckerberg’s company, META, purchased WhatsApp in 2014, Michigan Democrat Senator Gary Peters asked Zuckerberg in 2018 whether or not Facebook was listening to platform users, which many at the time disregarded as a ” conspiracy theory.”
The accusation was that Facebook was secretly listening to users’ conversations to target advertising.
“Yes or no: Does Facebook use audio obtained from mobile devices to enrich personal information about its users?” Peters asked Zuckerberg at the time.
“No,” Zuckerberg replied.
Mediaite noted that there is an audio component for users who post video footage, which “was a bit of an unnecessary clarification, given that the question was about surreptitious recording, not something users were explicitly recording media to share.”
Musk posted a follow-up Tweet about his warning against WhatsApp:
“WhatsApp founders left Meta/Facebook in disgust, started the #deletefacebook campaign, and made major contributions to building Signal. What they learned about Facebook and changes to WhatsApp obviously disturbed them greatly.”
Meta has repeatedly decided that the platform is listening in on users’ private conversations, saying, “Facebook, Instagram or WhatsApp do not listen in or use the cell phone microphone to influence advertising in any way.”
“No,” Zuckerberg replied." BALD FACED LIE
Alien among us!
That's not what your toaster told me...
Google listens all the time. I was streaming Dan Bongino and the google “assistant” which i turn off. Kept popping up and the results showed “missing context” warnings about everything it listened to. Unfortunately I am stuck using these evil companies so there is no getting away from this other than by turning them off. I would pull the batteries but they are sealed up now.
The same corrupt shot sighted idiots now have access to using AI - it’s gonna get worse.
Ping for later!
It would be interesting to see if he bleeds red, green, or something else.
Prolly wouldn’t blink during the entire thing
“Meta has repeatedly decided that the platform is listening in on users’ private conversations, saying, “Facebook, Instagram or WhatsApp do not listen in or use the cell phone microphone to influence advertising in any way.””
yeah, right ... supposed to be DENIED, not DECIDED ... obviously written by a complete moron OR AI and not checked by an editor ...
There are videos that show ads related to what is being said showing up as the poster talks. I have had this happened on the phone and on my computer.
“Wow! Really? Ten years ago?”
At that time he was a team leader on his school’s Math Olympics team.
He will be graduated next week with a double engineering degree, in 4 years, B$. His Dad took 5 years.
He will go to work for the same company, he has worked for since the Covid stuff.
Like his older sister, he helped the home room 7th grade teacher to present the new math.
He got straight A’s in math and his science classes at a top
private school.
You did good!!
Thanks!
Our grandkids and their parents did really good!
“None of our appliances are connected to the\Internet........................ I think..................🤔”
Our new LG dishwasher, relatively new LG washing machine and LG dryer are not attached directly connected to the internet.
However, if we are having problems with any or all 3, the 3 of them can connect directly to the internet.
“Not all of the TVs have them. It would typically be in the frame, like they are in laptops.”
Our basic tv is 10+ years old and doesn’t the camera built in, that we know of. It does have ears to listen.
My new chromebook has it built in in the middle of the top frame.
Even if the deivce in question does not have or is not allowed to connect to an internet connection, you could still have a problem courtesy of Amazon Sidewalk:
According to Wikipedia:
“In March 2023, Amazon opened the network up for outside developers to access, providing free test kits for developers to build Sidewalk devices. Amazon stated that more than 90% of the U.S. population was covered by the Sidewalk network.”
He is a “Brazilian Jiu Jitsu” fighter who won competitions recently.
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