{"id":373446,"date":"2021-11-23T21:11:27","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T18:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/test-can-prove-if-facebook-secretly-listens-to-your-conversations\/"},"modified":"2021-11-23T21:11:27","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T18:11:27","slug":"test-can-prove-if-facebook-secretly-listens-to-your-conversations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/test-can-prove-if-facebook-secretly-listens-to-your-conversations\/","title":{"rendered":"#Test can prove if Facebook secretly listens to your conversations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3df4deb3813\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3df4deb3813\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/test-can-prove-if-facebook-secretly-listens-to-your-conversations\/#Listening_in\" >Listening in?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/test-can-prove-if-facebook-secretly-listens-to-your-conversations\/#%E2%80%98Not_true\" >\u2018Not true\u2019<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#Test can prove if <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> secretly listens to your conversations<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>A Canadian tech guru has highlighted a handy experiment that you can perform to check if Facebook is spying on you.<\/p>\n<p>TikTok star Morten Rand Hendriksen told his 11,000 followers that the trick proves once and for all that the social media <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a> isn\u2019t secretly listening to its users.<\/p>\n<p>Conspiracy theorists for years have\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/tech\/16478036\/facebook-listening-microphone-proof-tiktok\/\">falsely claimed<\/a>\u00a0that the Facebook app hijacks smartphone microphones to listen in on conversations.<\/p>\n<p>The company is said to use the information it gathers to better target advertisements. Facebook has repeatedly\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/tech\/16606144\/facebook-ads-spoken-conversation-talked-listening-spying\/\">denied the claims<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to Morten, who posts on TikTok under the username @mor10web, there\u2019s an easy way to check if the app is snooping on you.<\/p>\n<p>It proves that Facebook targets ads based on your web history \u2014 such as online searches and social media activity \u2014 rather than what you say out loud.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou need a friend for this and you need a lot of patience,\u201d he said in a recent video in which he described the experiment.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/facebook-listening3-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Facebook co-founder, Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrives to testify before a combined Senate Judiciary and Commerce committee hearing in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill April 10, 2018 in Washington, DC.\" class=\"wp-image-20243833\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/facebook-listening3-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/facebook-listening3-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/facebook-listening3-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Facebook co-founder, chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrives to testify before a combined Senate Judiciary and Commerce committee hearing in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill April 10, 2018, in Washington, DC. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>To try it out for yourself: Grab a friend or family member and make an agreement to talk about a product or service any time you\u2019re together.<\/p>\n<p>You could pick \u201coat milk,\u201d for example, or an online clothing store.<\/p>\n<p>You can only talk about that product or service when you and your accomplice are together and when no one else is listening, said Morten, a web designer and developer who has plenty of experience in software.<\/p>\n<p>Keep your phones close enough to you that, if Facebook was listening through the microphones, they\u2019d be able to pick up your conversation.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-tiktok wp-block-embed-tiktok\"\/>\n<p>During the test period, you must also avoid interacting with any website or social media posts related to the subject you\u2019ve chosen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat means no liking on Twitter or Instagram or Facebook or TikTok or anywhere else that mentions anything to do with this product,\u201d Morten said.<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cWhat you\u2019ll discover is, as long as you\u2019re just talking about it, the product doesn\u2019t show up in ads.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If ads don\u2019t show up for several weeks despite the two of you engaging in multiple conversations, you can then try to make a related ad appear.<\/p>\n<p>To do this, have one person perform online searches and interact with social media posts related to the product.<\/p>\n<p>See how long it takes for related ads to show, and then have the other person do the same.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour conversations are ignored, but the moment you do some kind of text input, everything shows up immediately,\u201d Morten said.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Listening_in\"><\/span>Listening in?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>People have debated for years whether companies like Facebook are listening in on their conversations.<\/p>\n<p>But there has never been any solid evidence \u2014 beyond hearsay and anecdotes \u2014 that the social media giant is recording your chats.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook has repeatedly denied the claims, highlighting that it bases the ads you see on your interests and information from your profile.<\/p>\n<p>A number of independent investigations have found no evidence that the US tech titan secretly listens to its users.<\/p>\n<p>Experts say that, while Facebook hoards plenty of data, it\u2019s extremely unlikely that the company secretly records hundreds of millions of people.<\/p>\n<p>The key point is that Facebook doesn\u2019t have to.<\/p>\n<p>It knows enough about you from your browsing data and profile information to target you with very specific ads.<\/p>\n<p>In the case of many claims of Facebook \u201chijacking\u201d phones, the appearance of ads for stuff you recently nattered about is purely circumstantial.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"574\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Facebook-listening2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=574\" alt=\"It proves that Facebook targets ads based on your web history \u2013 such as online searches and social media activity \u2013 rather than what you say out loud.\" class=\"wp-image-20243818\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Facebook-listening2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1148 1148w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Facebook-listening2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=861 861w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Facebook-listening2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=574 574w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Facebook-listening2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=287 287w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Facebook-listening2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 574px) 100vw, 574px\"\/><figcaption>It proves that Facebook targets ads based on your web history \u2013 such as online searches and social media activity \u2013 rather than what you say out loud.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">TikTok<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%98Not_true\"><\/span>\u2018Not true\u2019<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Facebook has repeatedly and strongly denied that it uses microphone recordings to target ads.<\/p>\n<p>In a previous statement, a spokesperson said: \u201cFacebook does not use your phone\u2019s microphone to inform ads or to change what you see in <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> Feed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome recent articles have suggested that we must be listening to people\u2019s conversations in order to show them relevant ads. This is not true.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe show ads based on people\u2019s interests and other profile information \u2014 not what you\u2019re talking out loud about.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/facebook-listening4-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Conspiracy theorists have for years falsely claimed that the Facebook app hijacks smartphone microphones to listen in on conversations.\" class=\"wp-image-20243835\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/facebook-listening4-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/facebook-listening4-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/facebook-listening4-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Conspiracy theorists for years have falsely claimed that the Facebook app hijacks smartphone microphones to listen in on conversations.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">REUTERS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe only access your microphone if you have given our app permission and if you are actively using a specific feature that requires audio.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis might include recording a video or using an optional feature we introduced two years ago to include music or other audio in your status updates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>This story originally appeared <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-sun.com\/tech\/4126167\/genius-test-prove-facebook-secretly-listens-private-conversations\/\">on the Sun<\/a> and was reproduced here with permission. <\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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