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Facebook Launches NSA-Style Auto-Eavesdropping Feature
"I hope there are people who love the feature and post more," says Facebook's product manager excitedly about the new feature they just added. We suspect people will not... As The WSJ reports, starting Wednesday, the app has the ability to recognize music and television shows playing in the vicinity of users. Read that again... 'in the vicinity of users'. In other words, Facebook is unveiling its own NSA-style eavesdropping feature (on you and all your friends). Don't worry though... even if users decide not to share what they’re hearing or watching, Facebook will hold onto the data in anonymous form, keeping tabs on how many users watched particular shows. Sound familiar?
We're listening...
As WSJ reports,
Facebook’s mobile app just grew a keen sense of hearing. Starting Wednesday, the app has the ability to recognize music and television shows playing in the vicinity of users.
The feature is designed to make it easier for users to share. When users begin to write a post, the Facebook app will offer to include information about music or shows playing in the background.
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The audio-recognition feature works similar to the app Shazam, which also can identify music and television programming using the built-in microphones in mobile phones.
...Facebook says the app can recognize a live show within 15 seconds.
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If enough users opt in, the new Feature could give Facebook enough data to start compiling television ratings. Even if users decide not to share what they’re hearing or watching, Facebook will hold onto the data in anonymous form, keeping tabs on how many users watched particular shows.
...By tapping on the show or song, users can post it to their news feeds and let other users know what Facebook has already figured out – what they’re seeing and hearing.
We are sure this will not be abused or hacked by the NSA... and we are sure there will be plenty of small digital print that users will understand... One wonders though, is there any way for non-Facebook users to know that they are being eavesdropped upon?
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Does anyone doubt they've been doing this for years and are just getting around to announcing it?
So, yet another front-end script to slow the app?
And if Facebook is not enough today, we have this...
HHS Biosurveillance Plan Would Allow Government to Track Your Health Via Medical Records & More, Monitoring For Any Event It Considers A Government Defined Health Incident, United States of Secrets Part Two With Privacy Lost
This is an HHS program here and I got on it too late as comments ended today. The key clause here is "government defined heatlh incident" and that is verbally left wide open. This stuff doesn't stop.
http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2014/05/hhs-biosurveillance-plan-would-al...
Again, those folks living in "virtual" worlds think all the data in world can save them, and it scews us. Anything could be a "defined health incident" and that's the problem.
Whenever I use a different PC other than my own I open a new gmail account ot YM and then send the log in details to as many people as I can and ask them to use it freely for whatever they want to send if they don't mind anyone else who has access to the account to see it too.
So any form of complaints, harassing, snipes, head rips etc are all fair game . Use an account that hundreds of people everywhere use.
Only thing I ask is they never change the password and never complete the user details and pass it to everyone they know too
It actually works and the results can be hilarious when you see some of the stuff people send and you have no way of knowing who sent it.
Plausible deniability.
Not necessarily true. If you use a public library computer that requires verified login, your ID would be paired to the computer with a time stamp. If you use a computer monitored by a video cam linked to a networked database (at a bank, hotel, electronic store, department store etc), your picture will be available if the US government is after you. If you use your friends computer, or office computer, anonymity is just an illusion. It's not the email address alone; it's the IP address of the computer, user ID, time of usage, ISP, video surveillance, your cell phone etc etc taken together.
The US and the UK have already acquired the most sophisticated police state infrastructure the former USSR could have only dreamt of.
Exactly, if they wanted to know, they'd know.
It's just not practical and too expensive to hunt down small time criminals and trolls that use "semi-anonymous" tricks like these. If it ever came to an outright police state, or if at some point there was an information government REALLY REALLY wanted - they have means to get it.
What do you mean 'if' - welcome to the arming of 0's personal army.
We have arrived
MAC address too & any remote cell phone information as usually has been involved in cloning those cells for years.
Burner-phone, burner-netbook, disposable wi-fi, the works. You're anonymous or you aren't. Never in the same location.
Thankfully the video surveillance correlation is not in effect everywhere & won't be used (for now) for low-value targets but if you're a protester, defence lawyer, reporter, "patriot", you're pretty much uberfucked.
For some stuff I hire a freelancer in Bangladesh or Pakistan (there are plenty of freelance sites) to do suff for me. I even had someone from Pakistan posting ads for stuff that I wanted to sell on Craigslist. Throw away number, etc. Very easy to do. Also one-time use of the email (only for that purpose).
You see, the game is rigged, THEY are trying to fuck with us, but we can actually USE the matrix against them.
Also the usage of private proxies, remote computers, etc. plenty of possibilities here.
Dude - 1st rule of fight club...
ZH is a favorite bookmark of the G trolls
narcissistic bukkake circle jerk vomit
Well, they say you can't have your bukkake and eat it, too.
As an aside: if you watch TV you are probably an idiot.
"if you watch TV you are probably an idiot."
...said the guy with the "Banana Splits" icon.
Actually, I remember that show. The opening theme song and antics were hilarious. But, I found the show itself totally unwatchable - I don't think I ever finished one. Not that I was a particularly discerning 7 year old.
Although not a regular viewer of TV occasionaly I check out what the enemy is espousing. Watch what news, I mean propaganda is being put out. Maybe once every two months check out the sham Meet the Press to see what politician has been compromised by the the NSA. You know paraded out there to tell the official narrative. I scream at it lke it is a football game. It is always good to know a little bit about what those you wish to convince to come into the light of reality are being told. You can't win an argument if you don't know where the other person is coming from.
Thank you for posting this. I will delete Facebook promptly.
Thank you. No more google or yahoo for me either. I use Zeekly.com internet search engine with safe browsing and privacy protection. I am looking into finding new e mail provider. The 9 partners of the NSA need to be punished. Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, AOL, PalTalk, and I forgot the other two (Skype and Youtube?) Anyhow the PBS Frontline 2 part documentary "The United States of Secrets" can be viewed for free online.
What?
So many ZH readers have a FB account? And they use it?
Hand Check.
You mean, that they are spying on the Fuckbook account of my 19 year old Russian student girl? Oh god, they will hear all the porn that is running in the background!
Actually if someone wanted to use technology against them it would be very easy. Spies nowadays are fat nerds sitting in an air conditioned room at the NSA. Very easy to send them off the wrong track. VERY easy. Why? Because they rely too much on databases and electronic stuff. People, USE IT AGAINST THEM.
It used to be cool Martini drinking guys with hats and rain coats that actually did some field work. Human society has become a machine that produces only low quality shitty stuff.
So the only thing they'll discover is how many people are on facebook and watching porn at the same time.
If this is your only concern then you do not see the magnitude of this invasion. I am hoping most people on this site have either never had an account or are closing it now. At some point it would be nice to see some outrage over the 9 tech partners of the NSA. Disclosed by Greenwald (Snowden provided info) in his book- Nowhere to Hide or the Frontline PBS series United States of Secrets. You can watch the 2 part doc for free online. If you watch part 1 skip at least the first 10 minutes or you will hear the false narrative of 9/11 being paraded out as a pretense.
I wouldn't even sit on facebooks face
A few weeks ago my sister was talking to my brother about cruises. She had done no internet searches, only a brief conversation in our home. A couple hours later she started getting emails about cruises from Royal Carribean. She has Samsung Galaxy phone, not an iphone. This could not be coincidence, they are listening to everything we say already.
There isn't coincidences, it seems normal to have an intention for something like a vacation then receive things relating to it.
I get this scenario when I feel my job sucks and want a new one. I get waves of requests through Linkedin and when I calm down about the current situation they just stop.
Youtube search for rootkit on that phone.
I bet you find it transmits everything to the carrier and the manufacturer. I've seen videos demonstrating a debug screen keylog transmission to the manufacturer with NO CARRIER signed up yet.
Here are some new Facebook apps I really would like to see:
1. Alcholock for Facebook log-in (A-API).
2. Delayed posting service, adjustable, like a "regret" button.
3. "Go Invisible" button, one push and you are totally untraceable.
4. Anti-friend scanner that alerts you when people you don't want to meet is in the area.
5. Fully functional ion scanner that seperaates the good from the bad stuff.
6. Genetalia Biometrics Identification System (GBIS). Matchmaking the right way!