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Tuesday, June 26, 2018

Facebook wants to hide secret inaudible messages in TV ads that can make your phone record

Facebook is working on controversial software which lets it secretly order users’ smartphones to start recording audio whenever they hear inaudible messages hidden in television adverts.

The social network has always denied rumours that it listens into people’s private conversations and analyses what they talk about so it can show advertising that interests them.

But in a patent application published on June 14 this year, Big Zucker’s research division revealed a system which lets it quietly tell people’s mobile phones to capture ‘ambient audio’.

It allows Facebook to conceal ‘a non-human-hearable digital sound’ in the audio of a TV ad or other content.

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12 comments:

Anonymous said...

Technology is really starting to get scary.

Anonymous said...

How do I turn the damned thing off?!!

Anonymous said...

You can turn of Facebook's ability to access the microphone on an iPhone. Google it.

Anonymous said...

"How do I turn the damned thing off?!!"

You can't!

Anonymous said...

Don't go on Face Book using your Smartphone/ Case solved.

Anonymous said...

Delete facebook from your phone..

Anonymous said...

1984

Anonymous said...

11:54 is still using a rotary dial phone...pay no mind.

lmclain said...

And STILL there are MILLIONS of rabid cheerleaders (who never do anything wrong and will be stunned when the thought police show up to separate their children from their parents because of something they said in the (used to be) privacy of your home.
You dummies don't understand the critical fact here, which is .....
YOU and I DO NOT get to define what is "wrong".
You'll find out when they show up and march you out at gunpoint.
Don't think that could ever happen HERE?

You are DOUBLE STUPID.
Keep cheering.


Anonymous said...

Yep its a setup and As the vice slowly closes

And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

Anonymous said...

Lewis and his goon squad are training to enter your home by FORCE ONLY ......no warrants

Anonymous said...

Kill it. Kill it with fire.