back to article Shhhh! Facebook is listening

Facebook wants to hear what you have to say. Literally. Professor Kelli Burns claims to have tested a hunch that the social media giant's mobile application is listening to everything you say and providing ads based on that content, and discovered it was true. The mass communication prof at the University of South Florida, …

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    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Fuck the privacy

      and data usage?

  1. Updraft102

    A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Ah yes, but that's where the clever bit of Facebook comes in: the victims have now moved their social interactions to this anything but social media, and everyone else has done the same.

      The only winning move is thus never to start, because - like smoking and drugs - it's a heck of a lot harder afterwards.

      BTW, if you really must use a messenger app, use Telegram. Fewer people listening.

      1. TeeCee Gold badge
        Facepalm

        ....use Telegram. Fewer people listening.

        Last on that round here was that world+dog was listening in to it, courtesy of it being written by Russian s'kiddies who thought rolling their own crypto would be kewlness!!11!!!

  2. razorfishsl

    A husband is with his wife, she asks can she suck his dick.

    afterwards husband receives gay porn to his phone.

    AI logic =man owns phone.

    AI logic= heard dick sucking.

    if only IT was so simple

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      "she asks can she suck his dick"

      What planet are you from?

  3. JimmyPage Silver badge
    Big Brother

    You *can't* "opt out" of Facebook

    (unless you know no-one online).

    Even if you don't join Facebook, by the time a few friends have, and Facebook has worked out who you are (because your email address is in their contacts list) Facebook doesn't need you anymore. It knows you exist, and can probably have a good stab at your age, sex, location and interests.

    And you never went near it.

  4. d3vy

    OK, I get it people don't want facebook listening to them, however I don't see the issue with targeted advertising.

    If I am talking about going on holiday to florida I'd rather see adverts for holidays popping up on my news feed than some randomly selected crap that I have no interest in.

    Its very unlikely that I would click on an advert even if relevant as I am capable of searching for things that I want on my own.

  5. Rol

    Un duress and show us everything you've got, because you have no choice.

    Many many articles ago, we were debating how the FBI had messed up an attempt to fish for paedos, because they hadn't approached the correct chief clacker, yet FB, with its T&C's has no problems in sucking up everything it sees and hears.

    Perhaps a change will come about, when your A5 sized birth certificate suddenly becomes an epic tome of T&C's of citizenship, where the state has a FB style carte blanche right to intrude into your life, as much as it cares to.

    I see no difference, if you want to use MS, Apple, FB or be a citizen of USA, it all boils down to accepting the unacceptable.

  6. Howard Hanek
    Headmaster

    It's Unfair I Tell You!

    A plot by British Public Schools to rule the world using all those ancient language skills that have been rendered useless for anything but conspiracies.

  7. Alistair
    Windows

    Does anyone else here use

    Tinfoil for facebook?

  8. nilfs2
    Headmaster

    You deserve it

    If you are a facebook user you deserve this

  9. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    "Has verified" ... "Purely anecdotal" ... "May have"

    The academic mind at its finest.

    Would it have hurt so much to do a few more experiments?

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