There's a belief that Facebook is listening through your phone and then serving ads based on your life. But evidence suggests this is not true.
The copy of the post goes into more detail:"Some recent articles have suggested that we must be listening to people's conversations in order to show them relevant ads. This is not true. We show ads based on people's interests and other profile information — not what you're talking out loud about."that purported to prove that Facebook was listening to users."Facebook is not only watching, but also listening to your cell phone.
It's exactly these types of stories that embolden the belief that Facebook is listening to your conversations.The root of this belief goes back further, to 2014, when Facebook added a feature to its smartphone app for identifying music.that could identify the music around you and use that information for a status update. The feature required users to give Facebook's app access to their phone's microphone, and their phone alerted them to this fact.
Still, the idea that users were being asked to give the app access to the mic with the explicit purpose of listening for data that Facebook gathered was enough to get people worried. The company was forced to issue an update to its announcement with some clarifications. "Something that I've been hearing a lot from folks who have been coming up to me and talking about a kind of experience they've had where they're having a conversation with friends — not on the phone, just talking. And then they see ads popping up fairly quickly on their Facebook," Senator Gary Peters said during Zuckerberg's Senate hearing last year.
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