In Leak, Facebook Partner Brags About Listening to Your Phone’s Microphone to Serve Ads for Stuff You Mention
In Leak, Facebook Partner Brags About Listening to Your Phone’s Microphone to Serve Ads for Stuff You Mention
One of Facebook's alleged marketing partners explained how it listens to users' smartphone microphones and advertises to them accordingly.
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Except it's not Facebook doing this, it's Cox Media Group.
If you look at the slideshow, cox media group doesn't claim to be the ones harvesting the data, only to be processing it using AI to then provide that aggregate information to advertisers. Which makes sense, they literally have no means to directly collect voice data from you
Also no offense but, I thought lemmy users were a little bit better than this whole "read headline, make assumptions, storm to comments" thing that Reddit loves to do
they literally have no means to directly collect voice data from you
The Facebook app doesn't collect voice data either though, or at least I haven't seen any actual data proving it. Some Android phones show a dot on the screen when the microphone is in use. The Facebook app doesn't even ask for microphone permission unless you use a feature that needs it.
Android only solution, I think. Admittedly I don't know I iPhone very well.
Anecdotally, it's not even a solution. I've run into "coincidental" ads without having the FB app installed (visiting FB via browser).
Then they've installed a root kit on your computer because that's the only way they could have access to your microphone, the web browser blocks it otherwise.