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Re:Is Facebook eavesdropping on phone conversations? by chris_wot on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @06:05AM (#11768709)
I've been looking for this online statement they say was made by Facebook: “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.”

I can't find it anywhere on Facebook's site. I don't believe it exists, or if it exists it was expunged some time ago. I'd like to know from which website ABC News 10 has located this information!

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Re:Is Facebook eavesdropping on phone conversations? by LukeB_UK on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @06:18AM (#11768750)
Took me less than a minute: https://www.facebook.com/help/iphone-app/710615012295337
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Re:Is Facebook eavesdropping on phone conversations? by chris_wot on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @06:29AM (#11768797)
That page doesn't say that exact quote.
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Re:Is Facebook eavesdropping on phone conversations? by ceejayoz on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @10:37AM (#11770050)
Believe it or not, support FAQs occasionally get copy tweaks.
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Re:Is Facebook eavesdropping on phone conversations? by chris_wot on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @01:40PM (#11771590)
How does LukeB_uk know that this is the document the article used to source that statement? Does he have an old copy?

Genuinely curious as the page he's referred me to seems to document a U.S. only feature you need to specifically turn on when you update your status.

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Re:Is Facebook eavesdropping on phone conversations? by michael_h on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @09:37AM (#11769628)
google-fu: https://www.facebook.com/help/iphone-app/369513256545845

"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."

So, not as bad as the news article suggests, but still extremely creepy.

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Re:Is Facebook eavesdropping on phone conversations? by dpcx on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @10:54AM (#11770188)
No more creepy than Shazam or SoundHound. You'd be amazed at the number of people that want to share the song they're listening to, or the show they're watching, as part of a status update.
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Re:Is Facebook eavesdropping on phone conversations? by astazangasta on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @11:50AM (#11770625)
This should happen based on active request, not passively by snoop-mic.
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Re:Is Facebook eavesdropping on phone conversations? by chris_wot on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @01:43PM (#11771609)
Except that I believe you need to turn the feature on:

https://m.facebook.com/help/iphone-app/1499418503612943

Got this from someone else's Google search, apparent it took them less than a minute to find this, their Google-fu is clearly greater than my own :-)

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