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Facebook wants to 'listen' to your music and TV
- sp332 12y ago"Can be turned off at any time" means "will never be turned off by 99.99% of our users".
- pmx 12y agoIt amazes me that people are so willing to give these "services" so much access to their lives. It creeped me out when facebook used to ask me what I thought about a place I had been to. This is a whole new level of creepy, why don't people care?
- pkorzeniewski 12y agoBeside the privacy concerns, it's sad that most people feel the need to share every little detail of their life with everyone, 24/7. What's the point?
- spindritf 12y agoBranding (signalling). Same reason people post pictures of their desserts with the restaurant's name, announce party affiliation, and tell you about a band you have never heard.
- bluthru 12y agoFor some reason, many people form an identity from what they consume.
- minikites 12y agoWhy talk to anyone unless you think you can get something from them?
- codva 12y agoSo what happens when the MPAA buys access to the data and cross references everybody that is watching Game of Thrones with the HBO subscriber list?
- dredmorbius 12y agoI'm about ready to ditch my phone and swap it for a Morse key.
- coldcode 12y agoFacebook wants to listen to your brainwaves but are thwarted by reality. So far.
- bdg 12y agoI think I read about this in a book once... "The iPhone received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it, moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the helpful sign suggested, he could be seen as well as heard. There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being checked-in on social media any given moment. How often, or on what system, the service provider plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they included everybody all the time. But at any rate they could connect you whenever they wanted to. You had to live -- did live, from habit that became instinct -- in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized."
- happyscrappy 12y agoIt is fairly ironic that you use iPhone in your example considering that with side loading and permission over reach any talented hacker can access an Android phone to the level you describe while you would almost have to be a nation state to pull it off on a non-jailbroken iPhone.
- Create 12y agoThen you may have missed a break in the third quarter of the telecast of Super Bowl XVIII by CBS. Advertising Age placed it on the top of its list of 50 greatest commercials.
- untog 12y agowith side loading and permission over reach a non-jailbroken iPhone You don't think it's a little unfair to compare a sideloaded (thus, compromised) Android phone with a non-compromised, non-jailbroken iPhone?
- happyscrappy 12y agoSide-loading and non-jailbroken are the defaults. Google is warning everyone to only download from the Play Store but few pay attention and everyone wants something for free.
- uptown 12y agoSituational awareness and semi-passive alternative inputs is being added to more and more devices. The always waiting your command "Ok Google" thing that Android phones and "Ok Glass" that Google Glass do comes to mind. Same for the XBOX One, only in that case it's also got a camera aimed at your livingroom. The Nest knows when there are people present. And now Facebook can listen to your surroundings while you post a status update. Any others I'm not thinking of? Edit: Chrome now lets you use "Ok Google" as well. http://www.theverge.com/2014/5/22/5740946/chrome-ok-google-voice-search http://www.theverge.com/2014/5/22/5740946/chrome-ok-google-v...
- alaoiigha 12y agoI wish "Ok Google" was always waiting - Instead you have to initiate it. It's pretty awesome when you've dirty hands and can't touch the phone, but you need to turn it on, and unlock it first.
- ForHackernews 12y agoI have a Moto X, it does have touchless always-on voice control: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOr8Wxcc0Gs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOr8Wxcc0Gs (I don't have it enabled, though)
- Karunamon 12y agoOh, you mean scrobbling? That thing last.fm has done forever? And it only activates when you go into the status update UI? Sad that there's not a single, not even one positive mention of this feature here. I'm starting to think this whole privacy thing has turned a lot of you into luddites. I'm serious. The highest rated fucking comment is a post that takes a line from 1984 and replaces "telescreen" with "iphone". Yes, very clever and completely relevant. I remember a time when this would have generated discussion on how cool it is or what technology they're using to accomplish it, but instead, it's PRIVACY PRIVACY PRIVACY (even when it's an irrelevant concern, such as this) - the same reaction I'd expect had this been posted to 4chan /g/.
- CaptainZapp 12y agoOh, and this has nothing to do with Facebook's atrocious behavior in all things privacy?
- k-mcgrady 12y agoKind of OT but take a look at this [0]. They've actually just announced good privacy changes. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7783609 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7783609
- Karunamon 12y agoUnless your fear is that Facebook wants to record your conversations on the sly, then yes, that is a completely insane thing to be worried about, and I'd ask for proof. Facebook doing what Shazam does doesn't somehow make it more skeevy.
- ForHackernews 12y ago> Unless your fear is that Facebook wants to record your conversations on the sly Why wouldn't they do that? They could get more valuable marketing data. If they run voice recognition software, they can automatically pick out brand names, or listen in if you're talking about upcoming purchases. Maybe they overhear you having a fight with your spouse, so they can position ads for divorce attorneys when you log in to Facebook. > Facebook doing what Shazam does doesn't somehow make it more skeevy. Yes, it does, because Facebook is inherently a way skeevier company than Shazam. All you have to do is look at their history to date to see that.
- GlennS 12y agoRemember those scripts that changed your instant messenger status when you started listening to a song? Or posted in IRC about it? Automated narcissism doesn't exactly make for good conversation. People will get bored of it after a day or two.
- k-mcgrady 12y agoSeems like this thread is full of people typing while wearing tinfoil hats. They have added a feature which works the same way Shazam et al do. You want to share what you're listening to? Press a button, the mic gets activated, and Facebook ID's the song for you to save you typing it out and searching yourself. They are not listening to you all the time, even when you're in the Facebook app.
- illuminate 12y agoShazam doesn't try to run itself passively and report back to HQ when I don't need it to run. Shazam also isn't the same level of data mining/profiling.
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- tempodox 12y agoI'm sure we could just ask the NSA to identify all that fluff for us. And while they're at it, they could do our backups, too.
- UnethicalHacks 12y agothis will be a fantastic data collection tool to allow advertisers to target user's tastes that they don't "like" on fb.
- islon 12y agoThis app requires the following permissions: read you thoughts.