Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower: Facebook Able to Listen to You at Home and Work

PJ Media ^ | 3/27/2018 | PAULA BOLYARD

[Beave Meister]

"Facebook must be Santa Claus!

It sees you when you're sleeping, It knows when you're awake It set you up to be data-mined And it knows just what to take!"

[tomkat]

 FU FB !

             

[Ken H]

Facebook does a Faceplant on itself.

[DBrow]

So I went someplace and saw what looked like a fun card game, Exploding Kittens. I picked it up and read the box. Said nothing to nobody and put it down.

I came home and told my partner about it, just once, verbally.

Ads for Exploding Kittens come up on my computer.

[unixfox]

Listening for our government overlords.

FU FB!

[Lysandru]

Frankly, as a game, Exploding Kittens is mediocre. The artist and his work is why it got all the buzz.

But that is a scary anecdote--even scarier than how my dates from a internet dating site ended up as Friend suggestions--even though I use different e-mail accounts for Facebook and that site.

My brother had a one-night stand from out-of-town show up on his Facebook Friend suggestions.

[Beave Meister]

[Kipp]

One of my sons figured this out a year or two ago. He had been sitting at his dining room room table with his laptop open. His father in law sat down and they had a discussion about steel buildings. My son never sent any emails about them and never searched for them online. Shortly thereafter, ads about steel building started showing up.

I was skeptical that this could be happening, but when I did a search, there were lots of reports from other people about it.

[VeniVidiVici]

This isn’t new. It’s been reported that Smart TVs can do the same thing.

[2111USMC]

Interesting.

I wonder if your smartphone somehow picked up the bar code on the package.

[Bellflower]

Totally illegal. Bust them, wide open.

[OrangeHoof]

Not me. I never subscribed.

[DBrow]

I don’t have a smartphone! I have a flip and when it’s in my pocket the camera is blind. My partner has a smartphone, not Apple, without a FB app.

Could be the GPS log “knew” what games were there or something was listening like Amazon Echo listens.

[DBrow]

“This isn’t new. It’s been reported that Smart TVs can do the same thing”
Look up Weeping Angel in a library computer.

[browniexyz]

Exactly the kind of thing that has happened to me as well.

Forget Alexa. Your iPhone is recording everything, always, for any app you have downloaded....

[Blue Jays]

"...dating websites and Facebook..."

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Not only that...one can use both a different email and different pics that do not appear on FB...yet still sends those singles as Friend suggestions.

[TigersEye]

And that’s why I taped my ‘puter microphone to the bottom of my chair and eat a lot of beans!

[Ouderkirk]

Another reason why fakebook is banned on all devices in my home. Blocked by IP address at the router.

[umgud]

[petitfour]

Pinterest does it, too. I don’t Twitter on my phone, but I’m sure it does it, too.