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Audio Spying on Your Computers - Does Facebook LISTEN to us? Be Aware.
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[quote:mehitable lives:MV8yNDE0NjUwXzQxNTQ3MDc3X0JGREFGNzNF] [quote:Anonymous Coward 50614745:MV8yNDE0NjUwXzQxNTQ0OTQyX0Y5RjlDNDEz] [quote:mehitable lives:MV8yNDE0NjUwXzQxNDIwNzkyXzhEQjcyNjA2] I think the spying systems are far more advanced than people realize. Yes, they CAN do all these things, and they'll be doing more in the future. I would love to see services that come about where people can rremove chips or spying devices from these machines or we can figure out how to block them. We have an absolute right to privacy - only slaves have no privacy. [/quote] Maybe it's time to respond to all these ads thanking them kindly and telling them we'll now never touch their products with a ten foot pole? [/quote] Not a bad idea, but selling stuff to us is only one aspect of the system. The fact that they do it at all and retain this information is wrong as who knows what they might use it for some day. When we say or do something they don't like are they going to pull up or alter a private conversation to make it appear we have committed, or are going to commit, some crime? We don't know yet how bad this is going to get, this is the beginning. Please spread the awareness. Stopping this spying must start with the awareness that it's going on. And NO....it's NOT something ANY OF US AGREED TO. [/quote]
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I am throwing this out there for thought and discussion. Has anyone had the experience where you have been discussing a topic - verbally - not something you have written an email about or Googled or used the computer on - and an AD comes up on Facebook that day (or maybe next day but usually same day) about the SAME TOPIC YOU HAVE BEEN DISCUSSING?
For example....you might be discussing something fairly unusual like....Filipino geneaology...and an ad will show up on Facebook for something directly related to that. And you only discussed it verbally with someone else in the house - NOT via the computer at all. Perhaps you've discussed something like oh....Smith Brothers cough drops (haven't seen them in an eon) and an ad will pop up on your Facebook that day for Smith Brothers.
I don't know how common this is and I don't see people discussing it but I wanted to raise the issue.
NOTICE YOUR FACEBOOK ADS IN THE FUTURE AND SEE IF THEY REFLECT ANY PRODUCTS OR TOPICS YOU'VE BEEN DISCUSSING RECENTLY.
My point? I think that they are actually listening to at least some of us via the computers and translating part of this information into advertising (that shows up on Facebook). We can guess where the rest goes. I don't know if Facebook has to be open for this to happen, or if it happens anyway. Now personally I NEVER use Facebook so I can't test it for myself. But I have been told this, so I figure you guys are a good test sample.
Be aware of your Facebook ads in the future and see if they reflect anything you've been discussing just verbally recently. this is NOT the same as Google ads that might reflect your email as they read all our emails anyway. This is LISTENING.
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