I don't understand this fear mongering. First, all apps out there have the capability to do this, once given the permission to do so. And yes, you do have to e

I don't understand this fear mongering. First, all apps out there have the capability to do this, once given the permission to do so. And yes, you do have to enable this feature for it to work at all, so you're in control. Second, this feature only listens while you're posting (after you've explicitly enabled it), so it's not like it's doing this by itself while you're having super secret conversations (if it did you'd know because iOS makes the top bar flashing red while recording in the background). Third, you should have some faith in the tech competence, morals, or at the very least legality of big companies. There are laws in place to ensure that your voice doesn't get "recorded indefinitely", and in the case of this feature, it's just finger printing the audio which means that the only data being used cannot reconstruct the original audio – only compare two pieces of audio to each other. Lastly, if you don't trust this feature, you shouldn't trust anything else about the company either. I don't see how preventing this feature makes your life any more secure because if Facebook truly are using all your information against you, you've already given them more than enough. Not to mention that if there really was a conspiracy and they could record you without you knowing it, they'd hardly need to mask it behind this feature. If that was the case Facebook (or some other app like Skype) could just plain out record your microphone 24/7 anyway.