What I'm getting out of "We don't use your microphone for ads" is that they use your microphone, they just don't use it for ads. Which as many comments have alr

What I'm getting out of "We don't use your microphone for ads" is that they use your microphone, they just don't use it for ads. Which as many comments have already stated makes sense because you don't really need the recordings to determine a suitable ad when they are already getting all the data they need from just using facebook. What I think they do is, they record everything using the microphone, and they store it if you are a person of interest. A person of interest could be that maybe you have a over 1000 friends or something, maybe your a ceo of some tech company, maybe you're a lead programmer at intel, maybe you're someone the US government wants to track, maybe your a senators staff member, maybe you work for the Skunk Works at Lockheed, maybe you said a key word/phrase that throws you into the 'person of interest' category like 'electrogravitic propulsion'. When these surveillance companies do this type of stuff, they do it to people of interest, and if they ever need to put the squeeze on someone, or steal important information like get secret information about a stock trade or something, they go to that person of interests microphone records (which probably get transcribed into text by some program) and search for whatever they want to know. This is why this shit should be utterly banned, it controls people, it steals from people, it destroys innovation and scientific progress before they ever get off the ground, and its just plain manipulative.