and the check is in the mail and i won't ____ in your mouth...
Posted on 06/29/2018 7:50:14 PM PDT by BenLurkin
A patent from Facebook came to light earlier this week, depicting technology that Facebook would use to quietly activate a user’s microphone in order to listen to them as they watch ads.
The patent, filed earlier this month, was originally discovered by Metro. It describes a process by which secret messages embedded in TV ads, inaudible to the human ear, would trigger your smart device to record you while the ad was playing. It would then send the audio to Facebook, in order for it to hear your reaction to the ad. You can view the patent here, complete with stick-figure ballerina.
Facebook Deputy General Counsel Allen Lo said in a statement to Engadget that the company filed the patent “to prevent aggression from other companies,” and it would never be included in a Facebook product, ever....
The idea that Facebook is listening to users is a long-standing theory based on how uncannily its ads seem to target things they believe they’ve mentioned in passing. Mark Zuckerberg addressed this in his Congressional testimony, calling it a “conspiracy theory…that we listen to what’s going on on your microphone and use that for ads” and dismissing it flatly (one of the few questions he gave a decisive answer to that day, I might add).
I’ve even fallen into this mindset myself: I once mentioned Blue Apron briefly to my mother, only to see Blue Apron ads on my Facebook feed within a day. There are other explanations, though. I could have searched something about the company without remembering. Or I could have lingered on a post about them on Facebook, which Facebook mistook for curiosity (no offense, Blue Apron). Facebook’s data collection is so subtle and pervasive that I doubt it needs the audio of my actual conversation to figure it out.
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Schmuckerberg is now doing standup?
“..........totally never.........”
They are our great benefactors, we know this because they remind us of it. Constantly.
Freegards
And I’m sure no one at FB has EVER lied. EVER.
(See Schmuckerberg congressional testimony from a few months ago.)
If they say it, then it is probably not true.
Facebook would never spy on you. Perish the thought!
I can promise you..its not new!...phone snooping I’m talking...
Another reason not to ever have Facebook on your phone.
Did someone just tell the FB people to act like Senators?
Be honest.
No they never would.
Sure. Sure.
Maybe they mean to make this and sell it to cia/nsa/fbi snd let them use it. They nevr said they wouldnt use it.
Comcast definitely uses its remotes to snoop. We did some conclusive testing before we dipped their equipment in salt water and cancelled our service.
How would this play out in those states where recording is illegal without consent. Looks like both criminal and civil liability.
Wouldn’t learn anything from me. If it’s recorded, I skip the commercials. If it’s real time, I mute the TV whenever commercials come on.
and the check is in the mail and i won't ____ in your mouth...
Go ahead...all they’ll hear from mine is...
“Hi, Honey, did you make it to work okay?”
“You need to pick up a loaf of bread on your way home.”
“The kids called, they said to hell you ‘hello’.”
“Hello, Papa John’s...I want to order a large pepperoni.”
That’s about the gist of it. If that floats zapperbergs boat, let him hear it.
Like I believe them. They already track everything you do online and share it to anyone for a buck.
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