Facebook Patents Spying

frankbell · 06-29-2018, 02:27 PM

The Sunday New York Times has an article discussing some of the "features" Facebook has patented. Facebook spokespersons' say these are not in use and may never be in use, but they reveal chilling how the group mind of the Zuckerborg works.

Here's a bit about one of the patents.

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Listening to your environment

This patent application explores using your phone microphone to identify the television shows you watched and whether ads were muted. It also proposes using the electrical interference pattern created by your television power cable to guess which show is playing.

The full article is here: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...s-privacy.html

fido_dogstoyevsky · 06-29-2018, 06:07 PM

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Originally Posted by frankbell

...some of the "features" Facebook has patented...they reveal chilling how the group mind of the Zuckerborg works...The full article is here: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...s-privacy.html

Every day I move more and more to the way of thinking that we should wrap our phones in foil unless we're making a call. "Smart" phones actually aren't.

syg00 · 06-29-2018, 06:20 PM

Not just phones - "smart" TVs were probably the first (non-phone) device to get caught sending data home. Now it's half the things in a "modern" home listening 24 hours a day.
And people are crowing about having these things ???. ... sheesh.

Back to my cave.

enorbet · 07-04-2018, 01:50 PM

There is one salient difference between SmartPhones and SmartTVs. SmartPhones require connectivity to do their most fundamental function while SmartTVs do not, at least when being used as a simple PC monitor or to display prerecorded programming (DVDs etc.). Additionally SmartPhones all have microphones and most have cameras built in while TVs do not. If you have a SmartTV it can only gain connectivity even for usage as a Cable or Internet device, as opposed to Over-The-Air programming, through your (or someone's) router which can be firewalled. AFAIK there the only means by which to firewall, or anything even remotely like it, any SmartPhone and that is through the use of SIMs but I have no idea if those can be user programmed for increased security.

ChuangTzu · 07-04-2018, 04:22 PM

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Originally Posted by enorbet

There is one salient difference between SmartPhones and SmartTVs. SmartPhones require connectivity to do their most fundamental function while SmartTVs do not, at least when being used as a simple PC monitor or to display prerecorded programming (DVDs etc.). Additionally SmartPhones all have microphones and most have cameras built in while TVs do not. If you have a SmartTV it can only gain connectivity even for usage as a Cable or Internet device, as opposed to Over-The-Air programming, through your (or someone's) router which can be firewalled. AFAIK there the only means by which to firewall, or anything even remotely like it, any SmartPhone and that is through the use of SIMs but I have no idea if those can be user programmed for increased security.

For your review:
https://www.wired.com/2017/02/smart-...io-settlement/
https://www.cnet.com/how-to/samsung-smart-tv-spying/
https://www.hackread.com/samsung-sma...conversations/
http://money.cnn.com/2015/02/09/tech...acy/index.html