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In Leak, Facebook Partner Brags About Listening to Your Phone’s Microphone to Serve Ads for Stuff You Mention(futurism.com)

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dev_null@lemmy.ml
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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.

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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/

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Yep

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