@return2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 3 months agoIn Leak, Facebook Partner Brags About Listening to Your Phone’s Microphone to Serve Ads for Stuff You Mentionfuturism.comexternal-linkmessage-square262fedilinkarrow-up11.16Karrow-down141cross-posted to: brainworms@lemm.eetechnology@beehaw.orgpulse_of_truth@infosec.pub
arrow-up11.12Karrow-down1external-linkIn Leak, Facebook Partner Brags About Listening to Your Phone’s Microphone to Serve Ads for Stuff You Mentionfuturism.com@return2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 3 months agomessage-square262fedilinkcross-posted to: brainworms@lemm.eetechnology@beehaw.orgpulse_of_truth@infosec.pub
minus-square@InternetPersonlinkEnglish1•3 months ago it wasn’t in secret Did I misread something? It even says in the title of the linked article, that it was a “secret project”.
minus-square@dev_null@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglish4•3 months agoYes, it was secret in the sense they didn’t want their competitors knowing about it. It wasn’t secret to people who were invited and signed up for the program.
minus-square@InternetPersonlinkEnglish1•3 months agoIt was already ruled that they failed to sufficiently disclose which information was used and how. https://www.reuters.com/technology/australia-court-fines-facebook-owner-meta-14-mln-undisclosed-data-collection-2023-07-26/
Did I misread something? It even says in the title of the linked article, that it was a “secret project”.
Yes, it was secret in the sense they didn’t want their competitors knowing about it.
It wasn’t secret to people who were invited and signed up for the program.
It was already ruled that they failed to sufficiently disclose which information was used and how.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/australia-court-fines-facebook-owner-meta-14-mln-undisclosed-data-collection-2023-07-26/
Yep