Facebook Microphone Update To Store Data: Social Media Giant Confirms New Feature Will Aggregate Information

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On the same day that Facebook touted sweeping new efforts to protect users’ privacy, the company confirmed that it plans to save data captured by smartphone microphones, potentially enabling the social media giant to listen in on private conversations.

In a press release issued Wednesday, Facebook announced a forthcoming app update in which a new feature uses the phone’s microphone to capture sounds in the user’s environment, then identifies the song, movie or television show the user is watching based on what it hears. Once the sound is ID’d, users have the option to share it as a visual component of their posts …. http://www.ibtimes.com

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