Does facebook listen to conversations??
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Durzel said:
I upgraded to Sierra on Friday, laughed at a joke someone made in the office in the afternoon (I forget what it was) and what do you know this morning a Jimmy Carr DVD turned up unsolicited?????????????????
Uncanny! I went into a meeting the other day, my colleague said "break a leg", now I've seen an ad regarding medical insurance!
k I've ever heard! They'll never work that one out...Some Gump said:
Here's what's baffling me:
I had a new "people you might know" come up over the weekend. This is a person I've never met, but I DID just write / deliver a presentation with him prominently featured in an org chart.
After the facebook on my phone episode (where it seemed to look at all phone contacts and try to suggest I add work poeple to it), I deleted the app. I don't log into facebook on my phone either. I've never called this chap. He's not in my lotus notes contacts, I've never emailed him directly, and I'd never heard his name before 2-3 weeks ago.
How in gods name did their algorithms put 2 and 2 together? Goes facebook use some sort of equivalent of the google ad tracker and it found him via my laptop? If it did, I'd love to know the mechanism - my non-expert brain can't think of any clean way that wouldn't fall foul of data policies...
This happened with a decorator we had in a few months ago. Basically, FB app knows that you are spending an extended period of time with another FB user in the same geo location and later recommends that person as a friend.I had a new "people you might know" come up over the weekend. This is a person I've never met, but I DID just write / deliver a presentation with him prominently featured in an org chart.
After the facebook on my phone episode (where it seemed to look at all phone contacts and try to suggest I add work poeple to it), I deleted the app. I don't log into facebook on my phone either. I've never called this chap. He's not in my lotus notes contacts, I've never emailed him directly, and I'd never heard his name before 2-3 weeks ago.
How in gods name did their algorithms put 2 and 2 together? Goes facebook use some sort of equivalent of the google ad tracker and it found him via my laptop? If it did, I'd love to know the mechanism - my non-expert brain can't think of any clean way that wouldn't fall foul of data policies...
sicasey said:
This happened with a decorator we had in a few months ago. Basically, FB app knows that you are spending an extended period of time with another FB user in the same geo location and later recommends that person as a friend.
No it doesn't. You added his phonenumber to your phone.BaronVonVaderham said:
sicasey said:
This happened with a decorator we had in a few months ago. Basically, FB app knows that you are spending an extended period of time with another FB user in the same geo location and later recommends that person as a friend.
No it doesn't. You added his phonenumber to your phone.TX.
Johnnytheboy said:
My OH arranged for a guy to do some work for us in the garden a year ago. She doesn't do Facebook and I had no email or phone comms with him.
And yet he rapidly began being recommended as a Friend for me.
The guy has searched for your surname on Facebook and ended up looking at your profile. From that, FB recommends them as a friend to you. And yet he rapidly began being recommended as a Friend for me.
Probably checking to see if you had posted anything about his work afterwards too.
DaveGB said:
Johnnytheboy said:
My OH arranged for a guy to do some work for us in the garden a year ago. She doesn't do Facebook and I had no email or phone comms with him.
And yet he rapidly began being recommended as a Friend for me.
The guy has searched for your surname on Facebook and ended up looking at your profile. From that, FB recommends them as a friend to you. And yet he rapidly began being recommended as a Friend for me.
Probably checking to see if you had posted anything about his work afterwards too.
This thread is still going ..
Facebook runs under the same security restrictions as any other sandboxed app or website. There is nothing magic that allows them to circumvent this. They can track you the same way any other site can. They can't magically read your emails or listen to your conversations.
The only organizations that really can do all that are the likes of the NSA and GCHQ because they have the ability to intercept telephone and internet traffic from the internet backbone. If you want to hide from them you probably shouldn't be on facebook ..
Facebook runs under the same security restrictions as any other sandboxed app or website. There is nothing magic that allows them to circumvent this. They can track you the same way any other site can. They can't magically read your emails or listen to your conversations.
The only organizations that really can do all that are the likes of the NSA and GCHQ because they have the ability to intercept telephone and internet traffic from the internet backbone. If you want to hide from them you probably shouldn't be on facebook ..
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