• @Clent
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    1824 days ago

    There is a lot of misinformation on what Facebook is and isn’t doing. And a lot of it is pushing 10 years old.

    Facebook has long had features that detect exactly what you’re describing. They aren’t recording it, they are fingerprinting it. The target is any ads and music that is played but it could go beyond that.

    This is fundamentally no different than the way a device is passively listening for the “hey, assistant” phrase which just matches a fingerprint.

    Anyone who is simply looking for immediate data transfer when this occurs is a fool. There is absolutely no reason it cannot hold the list of known finger prints and add them to otherwise normal requests. The same for anyone looking for cpu spikes; these fingerprints are highly performant and it’s not recording, it’s matching so Facebook can deny all day that they don’t record your conversation and it isn’t a lie because it’s the wrong accusation.