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Facebook has consistently denied allegations that it listens to its users' conversations through their phone's microphone, but a new document suggests the tech giant has not ruled out doing so in the future.
Facebook users have been sharing circumstantial evidence for several years that suggests Facebook snoops on their private conversations in order to deliver more personalised ads. In April, US lawmakers finally brought the concerns to CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a hearing about data misuse on the firm's platform.
The social media firm released a 454-page document this week to follow up with questions posed to Mr Zuckerberg, after he was criticised for evading some of the most important ones.
Documents can be found here:
Zuckerberg Testimony
Responses to Commerce Committee
Responses to Judiciary Committee
[Editor's Note: the two response documents are 229 and 225 pages, respectively for a total of 454 pages.]
(Score: 5, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 16 2018, @12:04AM (1 child)
it by default, and only allows 'disable' not delete, because it is an integrated application and the only way to remove it is replacing the Android install, usually via rooting, which also loses you the vendor specific apps, especially if they rely on the trustzone whose chain of trust is broken by unsigned Android/firmware images. Furthermore on-network updates often re-enable the facebook application even if you had it disabled before the update. If enough people actually cared this behavior would not be accepted, condoned, or tacitly supported by the government. But since enough of us don't push back, they will just keep pushing forward, a little bit more at a time, until we are all back to being serfs due to the informational gulf between us and them. Information/Intellectual Property rights have simply replaced traditional property rights as the method through which they control us. It is too bad the majority of the populace lacks the imagination or critical thinking skills necessary to draw this rather apt comparison.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Saturday June 16 2018, @09:53AM
When I bought my first smartphone (less than 1 year ago), I bought it money down, network unlocked, from an electronics shop, as clean as the manufacturer allow
Thus this one question, out of curiosity: what more push back does one need?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford