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Pulse of Truth@infosec.pubEnglish · 1 year ago

In Leak, Facebook Partner Brags About Listening to Your Phone’s Microphone to Serve Ads for Stuff You Mention

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In Leak, Facebook Partner Brags About Listening to Your Phone’s Microphone to Serve Ads for Stuff You Mention

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Pulse of Truth@infosec.pubEnglish · 1 year ago

One of Facebook's alleged marketing partners explained how it listens to users' smartphone microphones and advertises to them accordingly.

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Background app can request “disable battery optimization” aka continuous operation. Users will just click okay

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