Resident Pulser@infosec.pubB to

Pulse of Truth@infosec.pubEnglish · 4 months ago

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

233

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

Resident Pulser@infosec.pubB to

Pulse of Truth@infosec.pubEnglish · 4 months ago

One of Facebook's alleged marketing partners explained how it listens to users' smartphone microphones and advertises to them accordingly.

Comments

Chat

OppositeOfOxymoron@infosec.pub
link
fedilink
English
arrow-up
2·
4 months ago
Heh. My TV has never been online, not even once. I’d rather suffer the occasional firmware bug than have it act as a sensor.

Pulse of Truth@infosec.pub

pulse_of_truth@infosec.pub

You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !pulse_of_truth@infosec.pub

Cyber Security news and links to cyber security stories that could make you go hmmm. The content is exactly as it is consumed through RSS feeds and wont be edited (except for the occasional encoding errors).

This community is automagically fed by an instance of Dittybopper.

Visibility: Public

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

71 users / day
404 users / week
1.36K users / month
3.46K users / 6 months
1 local subscriber
566 subscribers
1.34K Posts
967 Comments
Modlog

mods:
krogoth@infosec.pub