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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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[–] FlavoredButtHair@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

This is why I don't have the Facebook app installed. However, what about messenger? Did the collect the data from messenger?

[–] AutomaticUpdates@monero.town 8 points 2 months ago

Any closed-source software is a potential privacy threat. You are always at the mercy of big tech in that case. If the product is free, you are the product

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 2 points 2 months ago

Think about it.