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Re:Facebook open-sources a speech-recognition system and a m... by traek on Friday December 21, 2018 @04:52PM (#18737022)
> They have proved these "conspiracy theories" to be true quite a few times.

Such as?

Facebook has explicitly denied spying on people's conversations. I can't think of any situations where they have flat out lied about something like that, so I'm curious to hear what conspiracy theories they have proven true.

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Re:Facebook open-sources a speech-recognition system and a m... by sfilargi on Friday December 21, 2018 @05:39PM (#18737340)
> Such as?

Shadow profiles for example.

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Re:Facebook open-sources a speech-recognition system and a m... by cwkoss on Friday December 21, 2018 @05:13PM (#18737174)
They lied to congress about selling access to users' private messages.
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Re:Facebook open-sources a speech-recognition system and a m... by pavlov on Friday December 21, 2018 @05:21PM (#18737218)
You mean this week’s news that Spotify and Netflix had experimental messaging client integrations years ago?

It’s a complete mischaracterisation that Facebook shared private messages with Spotify. By the same logic, you could say Google is sharing your emails with Apple when you access Gmail using the iOS Mail client.

Spotify was offering an integrated client to FB’s chat service. This UI integration was a market failure and was discontinued years ago. Of all the things wrong with Facebook, this wasn’t worth the noise.

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