Facebook Listens to Your Phone Calls - Welcome to 1984

Facebook is listening to you

App requires users agree to be monitored by microphone

at any time without their permission

What the Fuck!  -  The world has gone mad.  Now we have Facebook recording your private conversations and then storing that data for "later use" by the 1984 Thought Police.

Cellphone users who attempt to install the Facebook Messenger app are asked to agree to terms of service that allow the social networking giant to use the microphone on their device to record audio at any time without their permission.

As the screenshot below illustrates (click for enlargement), users are made to accept an agreement that allows Facebook to “record audio with the microphone….at any time without your confirmation.”

The TOS also authorizes Facebook to take videos and pictures using the phone’s camera at any time without permission, as well as directly calling numbers, again without permission, that could incur charges reports Infowars News.

 

But wait, there’s more! Facebook can also “read your phone’s call log” and “read data about contacts stored on your phone, including the frequency with which you’ve called, emailed or communicated in other ways with specific individuals.”

 

Although most apps on Android and Apple devices include similar terms to those pictured above, this is easily the most privacy-busting set of mandates we’ve seen so far.

 

Since the vast majority of people will agree to these terms without even reading them, cellphone users are agreeing to let Facebook monitor them 24/7, green lighting the kind of open ended wiretap that would make even the NSA jealous.

As was covered in a previous article, embedded microphones in everything from Xbox Kinect consoles to high-tech street lights that can record private conversations in real time represent the final nail in the coffin of privacy as the ‘Internet of things’ becomes a part of our daily lives.

Mark Zuckerberg is Listening
As the screenshot above illustrates (click for enlargement), users are made to accept an agreement that allows Facebook to “record audio with the microphone….at any time without your confirmation.”

No Bill of Rights Needed
Facebook has no real interest in recording your conversations.  But in some back room deal with the Feds, Facebook is effectively acting as an agent for the 1984 Surveillance Police State in gathering all your information for the government to use at will.  Private businesses are working closely with the government to get around the 4th Amendment.