Intelligence Board: Does Facebook secretly use audio from users?
Board created by probono on Oct. 29, 2017.
There are rumors that Facebook secretly records audio from users to serve ads
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Facebook has secretly recorded audio at government request
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Facebook has never recorded audio without user permission
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Facebook secretly records audio for internal purposes
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Facebook has secretly recorded audio to serve ads
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| Oct. 28, 2017 Facebook executives deny using the microphone for ads | Evaluate | Neutral | Very Consistent | Neutral | Very Inconsistent |
| June 2, 2016 Facebook issued a press release denying using audio for ads or feeds | Evaluate | Neutral | Consistent | Very Inconsistent | Very Inconsistent |
| Jan. 5, 2015 Facebook has advanced voice recognition technology | Evaluate | Consistent | Neutral | Consistent | Consistent |
| Oct. 28, 2017 Many people report seeing adverts which appear to be related to recent, real-life conversations. | Evaluate | N/A | Inconsistent | N/A |
Inconsistent
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