{"id":29078,"date":"2017-12-22T06:56:19","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T11:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29078"},"modified":"2017-12-22T06:56:19","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T11:56:19","slug":"is-facebook-using-your-phones-camera-and-microphone-to-spy-on-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29078","title":{"rendered":"Is Facebook Using Your Phone’s Camera And Microphone To Spy On You?\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is Facebook Using Your Phone’s Camera And Microphone To Spy On You?\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n
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Do you ever feel like you\u2019re being watched when there\u2019s nobody else around?<\/p>\n

Decades ago, if the answer to that question was \u2018yes\u2019, doctors might\u2019ve advised you to see what they called a headshrinker. But technological progress has a funny way of turning situations on their head. For example, at the turn of the 20th century, everybody had horses – but only the wealthy had cars.<\/p>\n

Today, everybody has a car: but only rich people have horses.<\/p>\n

The same principle applies to surveillance: If you don\u2019t believe you\u2019re being spied on constantly, then you should probably have your head examined.<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n

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As advertisers hone increasingly sophisticated microtargeting techniques, ordinary social media users are reporting disturbing coincidences like the one Jen Lewis recounted to the Daily Mail.<\/a><\/p>\n

While out shopping, Lewis and a friend discussed purchasing a film camera. Not 20 minutes later, Lewis\u2019s friend checked Facebook on her phone and discovered, to her alarm, a targeted advertisement for the very same camera she had just considered purchasing.<\/p>\n

Then, less than 20 minutes later, an advert popped up on Lois\u2019s phone, for the exact same product. Same colour, same model, same everything.<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2018They\u2019re listening, they\u2019re watching,\u2019<\/strong><\/u> she said.<\/p>\n

\u2018Oh don\u2019t be daft,\u2019 I replied. \u2018Who\u2019s listening? Who\u2019d want to listen to us?’<\/p>\n

\u2018I\u2019m serious,\u2019 said Lois. \u2018This keeps happening. This is no coincidence. Someone is listening to our conversations. Advertisers. They\u2019re listening via our phones\u2019 microphones.’<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

At first, Lewis didn\u2019t understand what her friend was getting at. But it quickly dawned on her: Was Facebook recording their conversation and converting its content into fodder for targeted advertisements – all in real time?<\/p>\n

…click on the above link to read the rest of the article…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Is Facebook Using Your Phone’s Camera And Microphone To Spy On You?\u00a0 Do you ever feel like you\u2019re being watched when there\u2019s nobody else around? Decades ago, if the answer to that question was \u2018yes\u2019, doctors might\u2019ve advised you to see what they called a headshrinker. But technological progress has a funny way of turning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1493,652,15456,746,4318],"class_list":["post-29078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-facebook","tag-privacy","tag-smartphone","tag-spying","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29079,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29078\/revisions\/29079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}