There are thousands of technology experts who ensure that Facebook listens to the conversations of those users who have the social network app installed on their mobile devices.
Apparently these experts were not wrong at all, as a former employee of the social network has confirmed what many feared . Thanks to a video that this person has published on TikTok, it has been known that Facebook listens to everything that users who have an account within the social network say .
The video that has gone viral massively on TikTok shows a former employee confirming one of the most popular theories on the Internet. This person says that Facebook listens to everything people say when they have the phone near them.
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Thanks to a complex algorithm, Facebook has the ability to separate those words that are related to products and services . Basically, what the social network does is detect when a person mentions some type of brand, object or action.
Based on these words, the social network creates a temporary profile to adjust the ads that will be displayed within the feed that the user will see when entering Facebook.
Is it legal for Facebook to listen to everything you speak?
This is a question that has different types of answers. Similarly, it can be answered in a simple way: yes and no . As you surely know, most applications and services listen to what you speak , as this is a method they use to offer personalized advertising.
It is important to clarify that in the case of Facebook , the former employee confirmed that the social network does not save these conversations , it only listens to them in order to offer ads based on the tastes of its users.
Moreover, it confirmed that no person has access to these conversations , since they are only analyzed by the different algorithms that Facebook has created to detect keywords, how which ones? Products, services and brands.
Can you prevent Facebook from listening to conversations?
Yes, it is possible to prevent Facebook from spying on your conversations. Like the rest of the applications that you can install on your mobile device, Facebook has a setting that you can modify so that the social network does not have access to your microphone .
With nothing more to add about it, we are interested in knowing what your opinion is about it , do you think it is right that your mobile listens to you to offer you advertising? Leave us a comment so we can all discuss.
