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

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[–] Clbull@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Facebook listening in on your microphone is one of those things that I actually believe to be true. Ever had conversations with people to then realize that you're being served targeted ads based on these conversations? Seems very coincidental.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 months ago

Nope

There are other ways they do that, like thrird party cookies, and combining data from many, many sources.

Apps simply CAN'T access those kinds of things unless you allow it. You can check this in the apps permissions on your phone if you're not sure. If microphone access is allowed, then yeah, they'll be listening, probably. But remove that permission and you'll be fine