Facebook Is and Has Been Silently Listening to Everything You Say — Here’s How to Stop It

Facebook Is and Has Been Silently Listening to Everything You Say — Here’s How to Stop It

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/facebook-silently-listening-stop/

By: Jay Symopoulos
Date: 2016-06-19

Did you know that your Facebook mobile app has complete access to your phone’s microphone?

Recently, an expert has come out to claim that Facebook may be listening in on your conversations. Kelli Burns, a mass communication professor at the University of South Florida, believes the app might be using people’s microphones to gather data on the content of people’s conversations.

Facebook admits that the app is capable of listening to what’s happening around it — but claims the feature simply identifies what people are listening to or watching as means of conveniently posting about it.

Liberal, Moderate or Conservative? See How Facebook Labels You

Liberal, Moderate or Conservative? See How Facebook Labels You

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/24/us/politics/facebook-ads-politics.html

By: Jeremy B. Merrill
Date: 2016-08-23

You may think you are discreet about your political views. But Facebook, the world’s largest social media network, has come up with its own determination of your political leanings, based on your activity on the site.

And now, it is easy to find out how Facebook has categorized you — as very liberal or very conservative, or somewhere in between.