1984 ALERT: Facebook Patents Worldwide Spy Network Tech
Recently reporters have discovered that Facebook filed a patent a while back for a technology that would embed “digital fingerprints” in TV ads or other audio that would trigger smartphone mics to start recording everything in the surrounding area.
The patent is called “Broadcast Content View Analysis Based on Ambient Audio Recording.” That’s a longwinded way of describing a technology that effectively turns every smartphone into a spying device.
We live in an age when our everyday actions and words are being recorded at an unprecedented level. Anybody who has ever had a conversation about their desire for a slice of pizza, and immediately seen a notification from their Dominos app pop up on their smartphone, knows what I’m talking about.
Although they swear up and down that they’re not, the big social media companies are all recording our behavior just about all the time. Mostly its so that they can target us with ads they think will be more likely to draw our attention.
But now, the Zuckster looks to be moving into other forms of surveillance. The new Facebook patent would allow for tech that puts an undetectable audio-blurb into TV commercials.
When a phone hears that audio-blurb, say because somebody is playing Candy Crush while their TV plays the nightly news, it would activate the phone’s mic and allow the phone to record all the “ambient noise” in the room.
The recording would then be analyzed and stored by Facebook so that the Zuckster and his team of spies can figure out what ads people are watching on their TVs, or listening to on their radios, as the case may be.
https://libertynewsnow.com/1984-alert-facebook-patents-worldwide-spy-network-tech/article9544
My comments: Facebook must be regulated by a Bipartisan Commission as a Public Utility.
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