Facebook Wants To Spy On You Via Hidden Inaudible TV Ad Messages

SHTFplan.com ^ | June 25th, 2018 | Mac Slavo

[vannrox]

Social media giant Facebook continues to ramp up the creepy factor. According to a recently filed patent, Facebook wants to spy on you by hiding inaudible messages in TV ads.

Facebook has filed a patent for a system that hides audio clips in TV commercials. These sounds would be so high-pitched that they are inaudible to human beings. They would then trigger your phone to record all the background noises in your home. The patent application is called “broadcast content view analysis based on ambient audio recording.”

According to The Daily Mail, these secret messages would force your phone to record the audio of the private conversations you have without you even knowing. According to a patent application by the social media platform, clips taken of your background conversations and your movements across a room would help advertisers determine whether or not you are watching their promotions.

According to the patent, originally discovered by Metro, the system would use “a non-human hearable digital sound” to activate your phone’s microphone. This noise, which could be a sound so high-pitched that humans cannot hear it, would contain a “machine recognizable” set of Morse code-style beeps. Once your phone “hears” or recognizes the trigger, it would begin to record the “ambient noise” in the home, such as the sound of your air conditioning unit, plumbing noises from your pipes, and even your movements from one room to another. Your phone would even listen in on “distant human speech” and “creaks from thermal contraction”, according to the patent.

Facebook is currently working on the controversial software too, said a patent application published on June 14 this year. If you’re like the rest of us, you might think this sounds like an Orwellian nightmare technology which will let Big Zucker intrude upon the lives of millions of unsuspecting people in unprecedentedly terrifying ways.

The tech is going to be used to monitor what people watch on their “broadcasting device” so that the adverts they are shown on Facebook are likely to appeal to them. This would also allow companies to get an accurate sense of the size of the audience which has viewed their promotion. That’s what Facebook says in its patent, however, there is absolutely no mention of spying on our private lives, invading our privacy, recording our intimate conversations, and forcing advertising into the heart of our homes whatsoever.

[snooter55]

I absolutely have a choice. So do you. PUT.DOWN.THE.SMART.PHONE.NOW.
;o)

Snoot

[lightman]

Totally illegal wiretapping in 2 party consent states like PA and IL.

All you need to do is set your phone’s preferences to disable the mic on the FB app. On the iPhone go to settings, scroll down to the app, open its settings and disable the mic.

Or better yet, don’t install the FB app.

Even better, don’t do FB.

[dfwgator]

In America Television Watches You.

[TexasGator]

Dude, you would have to have the app installed on your phone and give them permission

[GOP Poet]

bookmark

[bgill]

What’s a Facebook?

[Right Wing Assault]

Even better, don’t do FB.

Kill Facebook. Kill google.

I say that many times a day.

[seowulf]

In America Television Watches You.

I recall that's what they did in "1984" too.

[Pelham]

“These sounds would be so high-pitched that they are inaudible to human beings. “

So...the ads are designed to get dogs to order stuff?

[dirtymac]

“Sounds like BS.’

‘Head in the sand’ comes to mind.

[lightman]

FB is dominated by codependent narcissists and voyeurs.

[Right Wing Assault]

According to a patent application by the social media platform, clips taken of your background conversations and your movements across a room would help advertisers determine whether or not you are watching their promotions.

During the commercial, say how bad the product sucks. Say it is the stupidest commercial and it makes you want to not buy their stuff. Sometimes do a trip to the bathroom. Flush the toilet and hold the phone close. Say that dump or leak was a lot better than watching all these ads. Don't be all negative. Say how it's nice of them to give you a pit stop during the shows.

[softengine]

THIS is some scary @ssed sh...

[Right Wing Assault]

In America Television Watches You.

"In Soviet Russia, television watches YOU!!" - Jacov Smirnoff.

[joshua c]

Here is the short version:

FaceBrother can do whatever the F**k it wants.

Even if this isnt true, why would anyone still be on FB after all the other stuff they have pulled.

I guess there are more masochists than I thought.

[ETCM]

of course desktops and laptops have mikes. what do you think Skype does? read your lips??

Read my lips (or just the text you replied to), I said desktops. Most laptops (and "all-in-one" computers) do have microphones and cameras, but desktops typically require you to buy a microphone and plug it into your computer. Try loading skype onto your desktop without plugging in a camera and microphone... The camera and mic in laptops can usually be easily disabled. Regardless, facebook can't take control or listen in without you loading software that allows them to do so.

[wally_bert]

A cheesy 70s movie about another earth had TVs that watched the viewer.

[Faith65]

BKMK TO READ LATER

[onedoug]

“We don’t need no stinkin’ Constitution!”

[ridesthemiles]

Let’s see what he can record from my 40 ++ year old Princess phone.