Re:Is Facebook eavesdropping on phone conversations?
by dpcx on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @10:54AM
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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.
Re:Is Facebook eavesdropping on phone conversations?
by astazangasta on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @11:50AM
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This should happen based on active request, not passively by snoop-mic.
Re:Is Facebook eavesdropping on phone conversations?
by chris_wot on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @01:43PM
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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 :-)
"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.