Guest Post by Karl Denninger
Facebook is not just looking at user’s personal information, interests, and online habits but also to your private conversations, revealed a new report. According to NBC report, this may be the case as Kelli Burns, a professor at University of South Florida states, “I don’t think that people realize how much Facebook is tracking every move we’re making online. Anything that you’re doing on your phone, Facebook is watching.” the professor said.
Later in the article Facebook appears to confirm that it does indeed use your microphone — which means it listens to and uploads the contents of speech and other sound around you when you are using the app.
Explain to me, if you would, why you’d ever allow such a device in your pocket? Further, please explain to me exactly why you believe Facebook would only use this for “ad targeting”….. when there is literally nothing to prevent them from doing otherwise.
And finally, please explain why this is legal and Facebook and its officers are not under criminal indictment, particularly when you consider that people other than you may well speak within the listening range of your microphone, and while you may have given consent they did not and further, they had no idea they were being recorded!
So you want to have a conversation with me, eh? Well I don’t consent to being recorded, and in many states (including Florida) unless said recorder is either openly and notoriously present and thus obvious (giving me the clear option to refuse to talk to you in its presence) or you have my consent it’s a felony to make that recording in any situation where I reasonably believe I’m not being taped or overheard.
Oh by the way, the use to which you put the recording is immaterial; it is not legal in this state to do so for “purely” advertising purposes; any such use is unlawful and in fact it is a felony in this state.
Heh Zuckerpig — your ass ought to be indicted for this crap, and Florida is not alone in criminalizing this activity.
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