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I've been looking for this online statement they say was made by Facebook: “We use your microphone to identify the things you’re listening to or watching, based on the music and TV matches we’re able to identify.”

I can't find it anywhere on Facebook's site. I don't believe it exists, or if it exists it was expunged some time ago. I'd like to know from which website ABC News 10 has located this information!



Took me less than a minute: https://www.facebook.com/help/iphone-app/710615012295337


That page doesn't say that exact quote.


Believe it or not, support FAQs occasionally get copy tweaks.


How does LukeB_uk know that this is the document the article used to source that statement? Does he have an old copy?

Genuinely curious as the page he's referred me to seems to document a U.S. only feature you need to specifically turn on when you update your status.


google-fu: https://www.facebook.com/help/iphone-app/369513256545845

"No, we don't record your conversations. If you choose to turn on this feature, we'll only use your microphone to identify the things you're listening to or watching based on the music and TV matches we're able to identify. If this feature is turned on, it's only active when you're writing a status update."

So, not as bad as the news article suggests, but still extremely creepy.


No more creepy than Shazam or SoundHound. You'd be amazed at the number of people that want to share the song they're listening to, or the show they're watching, as part of a status update.


This should happen based on active request, not passively by snoop-mic.


Except that I believe you need to turn the feature on:

https://m.facebook.com/help/iphone-app/1499418503612943

Got this from someone else's Google search, apparent it took them less than a minute to find this, their Google-fu is clearly greater than my own :-)




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