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
Facebook has never recorded audio without user permission
Facebook secretly records audio for internal purposes
Facebook has secretly recorded audio to serve ads
Oct. 28, 2017 Facebook executives deny using the microphone for ads Evaluate Consensus: Neutral Consensus: Very Consistent Consensus: Neutral Consensus: Very Inconsistent
June 2, 2016 Facebook issued a press release denying using audio for ads or feeds Evaluate Consensus: Neutral Consensus: Consistent Consensus: Very Inconsistent Consensus: Very Inconsistent
Jan. 5, 2015 Facebook has advanced voice recognition technology Evaluate Consensus: Consistent Consensus: Neutral Consensus: Consistent Consensus: Consistent
Oct. 28, 2017 Many people report seeing adverts which appear to be related to recent, real-life conversations. Evaluate Consensus: N/A Consensus: Inconsistent Consensus: N/A Extreme Dispute

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