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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: 4, Interesting) by frojack on Saturday June 16 2018, @01:02AM (1 child)
Better yet, don't bother making Zuckerberg answer questions about it.
Just make it illegal! Illegal for ANY company to listen into, record or voice-reco ANY conversations by and between users on ANY app. No OPT in allowed. If that removes any financial incentive to develop these apps, so be it.
Need an exception for Law enforcement? (If you are feeling charitable towards the FBI for some reason), then make an explicit warrant requirement, and still forbid any company from listening, recording, or voice-to-text capture.
Make the penalties large enough to fund two or three state governments for a year.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 16 2018, @07:39AM
It's already illegal in 2 party consent states and that hasn't stopped it from happening. The problem more than anything else is that there's a failure to send these kinds of creeps to prison.