Post by Velar Fricative on May 30, 2014 16:32:58 GMT -5
FB did this with the random unique peanut butter sandwich I ate for lunch one day. An exact photo of the sandwich was an ad on my news feed. I was creeped the fuck out.
"Not gonna lie; I kind of keep expecting you to post one day that you threw down on someone who clearly had no idea that today was NOT THEIR DAY." ~dontcallmeshirley
Post by chittybangbang on May 30, 2014 21:49:51 GMT -5
There is a new Facebook app that uses the microphone to listen to what's happening around you. This article sounds much less alarmist than the radio program I heard about it on.
Facebook said it would roll out a feature called “Identify TV and Music” to allow users to identify and tag music and TV programs playing in their area via Facebook.
When users start to create their status update, Facebook will then activate the smartphone’s microphone to try and detect audio that’s playing. If a matching sample of the audio is found, then it will attempt to match it to a song; Facebook will then include a sample of it in the status.
“When writing a status update — if you choose to turn the feature on — you’ll have the option to use your phone’s microphone to identify what song is playing or what show or movie is on TV,” Facebook says. “That means if you want to share that you’re listening to your favorite Beyoncé track or watching the season premiere of Game of Thrones, you can do it quickly and easily, without typing.”
It added: “If you share music, your friends can see a 30-second preview of the song. For TV shows, the story in News Feed will highlight the specific season and episode you’re watching, so you can avoid any spoilers and join in conversations with your friends after you’ve caught up.”
The feature will have to be given permission to start by the user first. When it is activated, an icon on the phone will show up to let users know their phone’s microphone is turned on.
Facebook later said that the app won’t be used to listen in on conversations.
“Nope, no matter how interesting your conversation, this feature does not store sound or recordings. Facebook isn’t listening to or storing your conversations,” Facebook says.
“Here’s how it works: if you choose to turn the feature on, when you write a status update, the app converts any sound into an audio fingerprint on your phone. This fingerprint is sent to our servers to try and match it against our database of audio and TV fingerprints. By design, we do not store fingerprints from your device for any amount of time. And in any event, the fingerprints can’t be reversed into the original audio because they don’t contain enough information.”
However, a number of people were spreading a rumor saying that Facebook will “listen to our conversations through our own phones’ microphone. Talk about a Big Brother move,” according to Snopes.
“Not only is this move just downright creepy, it’s also a massive threat to our privacy. This isn’t the first time Facebook has been criticized for breaching our right to privacy, and it’s hoping this feature will fly under the radar. No such luck for Facebook. If we act now, we can stop Facebook in its tracks before it has a chance to release the feature,” the statement also said.
There is a new Facebook app that uses the microphone to listen to what's happening around you. This article sounds much less alarmist than the radio program I heard about it on.
Facebook said it would roll out a feature called “Identify TV and Music” to allow users to identify and tag music and TV programs playing in their area via Facebook.
When users start to create their status update, Facebook will then activate the smartphone’s microphone to try and detect audio that’s playing. If a matching sample of the audio is found, then it will attempt to match it to a song; Facebook will then include a sample of it in the status.
“When writing a status update — if you choose to turn the feature on — you’ll have the option to use your phone’s microphone to identify what song is playing or what show or movie is on TV,” Facebook says. “That means if you want to share that you’re listening to your favorite Beyoncé track or watching the season premiere of Game of Thrones, you can do it quickly and easily, without typing.”
It added: “If you share music, your friends can see a 30-second preview of the song. For TV shows, the story in News Feed will highlight the specific season and episode you’re watching, so you can avoid any spoilers and join in conversations with your friends after you’ve caught up.”
The feature will have to be given permission to start by the user first. When it is activated, an icon on the phone will show up to let users know their phone’s microphone is turned on.
Facebook later said that the app won’t be used to listen in on conversations.
“Nope, no matter how interesting your conversation, this feature does not store sound or recordings. Facebook isn’t listening to or storing your conversations,” Facebook says.
“Here’s how it works: if you choose to turn the feature on, when you write a status update, the app converts any sound into an audio fingerprint on your phone. This fingerprint is sent to our servers to try and match it against our database of audio and TV fingerprints. By design, we do not store fingerprints from your device for any amount of time. And in any event, the fingerprints can’t be reversed into the original audio because they don’t contain enough information.”
However, a number of people were spreading a rumor saying that Facebook will “listen to our conversations through our own phones’ microphone. Talk about a Big Brother move,” according to Snopes.
“Not only is this move just downright creepy, it’s also a massive threat to our privacy. This isn’t the first time Facebook has been criticized for breaching our right to privacy, and it’s hoping this feature will fly under the radar. No such luck for Facebook. If we act now, we can stop Facebook in its tracks before it has a chance to release the feature,” the statement also said.
FB creeps me out so much. asdfjkl, remember when I asked you to FB stalk me because I had a theory about some suspicious friend suggestions? You never did pop up, but I still get random friend suggestions of people I know, but aren't FB connected to me anyway I can find.
FB creeps me out so much. asdfjkl, remember when I asked you to FB stalk me because I had a theory about some suspicious friend suggestions? You never did pop up, but I still get random friend suggestions of people I know, but aren't FB connected to me anyway I can find.
This has happened to me too. A few months ago I got the suggestion of a guy that I went on two dates with years ago. We have no friends in common.
My theory was that if someone is stalking you, they would pop up as a friend suggestion. As a FB stalker myself, this is important information to have!
This has happened to me too. A few months ago I got the suggestion of a guy that I went on two dates with years ago. We have no friends in common.
Doesn't fb suggest people that have been looking for you? So I am sure I pop up in a suggested list to several exes since I have stalked them before
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That was my theory, so I asked SBP to stalk me and I stalked her (don't worry, asdfjkl, I stopped ages ago!). To my knowledge, we never popped up in each other's feed. Maybe FB was on to the plot....
Post by PinkSquirrel on May 31, 2014 8:19:27 GMT -5
This prompted me to go see what google currently thinks it knows about me. While FB is super sketchy, Google has no problem telling me how it has me categorized for ad purposes. For awhile now google has thought I was a man. DAMN YOU MAKEUP THREAD google now knows I'm a woman.
ETA In case you want to see what google knows about you go here. You can also opt out of interest based ads and block specific ads there
Plus, they all link to each other. I remember I searched for lts bm and occasionally, she will pop up in suggested people on LinkedIn. It all still creeps me out a bit, though.
I keep getting suggestions for diets and kids clothes.
Maybe I should use my apparent skills at deception to be an undercover agent.
haha! To be fair, it's a pretty good guess that a woman your age would be interested in diets and kids clothes. I guess that means they don't have more specific data on you.
I was chatting with my husband last night about buying our baby her first pair of walking shoes, when I decided to google, "when to buy baby's first walking shoes."
I had typed in, "when to buy" and the rest of the phrase auto-completed as the first suggestion.
I wanted to see what google would give me when I typed it "when to buy". It gave me:
When to buy a mac
When to buy airline tickets
When to buy a house
When to buy a new car
I'm guessing that Google also does stuff with cookies.
I was chatting with my husband last night about buying our baby her first pair of walking shoes, when I decided to google, "when to buy baby's first walking shoes."
I had typed in, "when to buy" and the rest of the phrase auto-completed as the first suggestion.
I wanted to see what google would give me when I typed it "when to buy". It gave me:
When to buy a mac
When to buy airline tickets
When to buy a house
When to buy a new car
I'm guessing that Google also does stuff with cookies.
I was chatting with my husband last night about buying our baby her first pair of walking shoes, when I decided to google, "when to buy baby's first walking shoes."
I had typed in, "when to buy" and the rest of the phrase auto-completed as the first suggestion.
I wanted to see what google would give me when I typed it "when to buy". It gave me:
When to buy a mac
When to buy airline tickets
When to buy a house
When to buy a new car
I'm guessing that Google also does stuff with cookies.