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In Leak, Facebook Partner Brags About Listening to Your Phone’s Microphone to Serve Ads for Stuff You Mention

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In Leak, Facebook Partner Brags About Listening to Your Phone’s Microphone to Serve Ads for Stuff You Mention

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One of Facebook's alleged marketing partners explained how it listens to users' smartphone microphones and advertises to them accordingly.
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  • @InternetPerson@lemmings.world
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    1•10 months ago

    it wasn’t in secret

    Did I misread something? It even says in the title of the linked article, that it was a “secret project”.

    • @dev_null@lemmy.ml
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      4•10 months ago

      Yes, it was secret in the sense they didn’t want their competitors knowing about it.

      It wasn’t secret to people who were invited and signed up for the program.

      • @InternetPerson@lemmings.world
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        1•10 months ago

        It was already ruled that they failed to sufficiently disclose which information was used and how.

        https://www.reuters.com/technology/australia-court-fines-facebook-owner-meta-14-mln-undisclosed-data-collection-2023-07-26/

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          1•10 months ago

          Yep

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