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Proved: Facebook application continuously listens to talk smartphone users
An American professor has found evidence that the mobile Facebook app constantly listens for smartphone users.
The developers of the world's most popular social network in the official client introduced the possibility of constant listening to the users. This feature appeared in applications for mobile devices in 2014, writes the BFM.
According to the professor of the University of South Florida Kelly Burns, decided to further explore the new Facebook features, the application uses these opportunities not only in the stated order to assist users, but also to listen to their conversations, followed them to offer certain services.
To test their hypothesis K. Burns specifically discussed with interlocutors strictly defined topics during off access to social networks, and then found that it opened on this device websites were shown advertisements related to issues raised in conversations.
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At the request of the representative of the Journalists Facebook has officially announced that the company "does not use the audio capabilities built into the phone's microphone to collect and transmit information to advertisers or news agencies in one form or another».
When you start a new feature two years ago, Facebook executives claimed that the phones installed application does not always listen to the users and that the company does not keep the record.
Official documents Facebook, published on the website of the company also stated that it does not record the conversations of customers, but uses sound information "to identify what is happening around the device." Use this opportunity ostensibly only to determine what the user is listening or watching, "in order to facilitate it to accommodate respective positions" on the social network.
According to the British newspaper, unwanted feature phones on which the application is installed, you can disable by software when the operating system setup. This feature is designed for smartphones running both iOS operating system, as well as on Android.
The developers of the world's most popular social network in the official client introduced the possibility of constant listening to the users. This feature appeared in applications for mobile devices in 2014, writes the BFM.
According to the professor of the University of South Florida Kelly Burns, decided to further explore the new Facebook features, the application uses these opportunities not only in the stated order to assist users, but also to listen to their conversations, followed them to offer certain services.
To test their hypothesis K. Burns specifically discussed with interlocutors strictly defined topics during off access to social networks, and then found that it opened on this device websites were shown advertisements related to issues raised in conversations.
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At the request of the representative of the Journalists Facebook has officially announced that the company "does not use the audio capabilities built into the phone's microphone to collect and transmit information to advertisers or news agencies in one form or another».
When you start a new feature two years ago, Facebook executives claimed that the phones installed application does not always listen to the users and that the company does not keep the record.
Official documents Facebook, published on the website of the company also stated that it does not record the conversations of customers, but uses sound information "to identify what is happening around the device." Use this opportunity ostensibly only to determine what the user is listening or watching, "in order to facilitate it to accommodate respective positions" on the social network.
According to the British newspaper, unwanted feature phones on which the application is installed, you can disable by software when the operating system setup. This feature is designed for smartphones running both iOS operating system, as well as on Android.
