{"id":250893,"date":"2016-06-20T10:16:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T10:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=250893"},"modified":"2016-06-20T10:16:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-20T10:16:00","slug":"facebook-has-been-listening-to-everything-you-say-heres-how-to-stop-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/facebook-has-been-listening-to-everything-you-say-heres-how-to-stop-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Has Been Listening to Everything You Say \u2014 Here\u2019s How to Stop It"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pw-hidden-cp\">\n<p>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\u2019s microphones to gather data on the content of people\u2019s conversations.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook admits that the app is capable of listening to what\u2019s happening around it \u2014 but claims the feature simply identifies what people are listening to or watching as means of conveniently posting about it.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the feature is only available in the U.S.\u00a0and has been available for a couple of years according to Facebook, although recent warnings from Burns have drawn renewed interest.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/life-style\/gadgets-and-tech\/news\/facebook-using-people-s-phones-to-listen-in-on-what-they-re-saying-claims-professor-a7057526.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Independent<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Professor Burns has said that the tool appears to be using the audio it gathers not simply to help out users, but might be doing so to listen in to discussions and serve them with relevant advertising. She says that to test the feature, she discussed certain topics around the phone and then found that the site appeared to show relevant ads.<\/p>\n<p>Though Professor Burns said she was not convinced that Facebook is listening in on conversations \u2013 it may have been that she was searching for the same things that she chose to discuss around the phone \u2013 but she said that it wouldn\u2019t be a surprising move from the site.<\/p>\n<p>The claim chimes with anecdotal reports online that the site appears to show ads for things that people have mentioned in passing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Facebook admits that their app can listen to audio and collects audio information from users \u2013 but that the two aren\u2019t combined, and that no audio data is stored or correlated with advertising.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read more: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailyliberator.com\/facebook-listening-everything-say-heres-stop\/\">Facebook Has Been Listening to Everything You Say \u2014 Here\u2019s How to Stop It<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s microphones to gather data on the content of people\u2019s conversations. Facebook admits that the app is capable of listening [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":250894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-250893","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}