[CRNMC] Fwd: Facebook is listening to you. Literally.

[Beth Brenneman]

*Dear Doug etal....i have never understood why anyone uses Fedbook,
especially us.  It was started by fbi connected people and look at the
petition below.  Here in Lay. word of mouth is working just fine.  Beth B*

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Kaytee Riek, SumOfUs.org <us at sumofus.org>
Date: Wed, May 28, 2014 at 2:47 AM
Subject: Facebook is listening to you. Literally.
To: Beth Brenneman <storyteller2069 at gmail.com>


          *Facebook just announced a new feature to its app, which will let
it listen to users’ private conversations through their phones’
microphones.* Tell Facebook to stop invading our privacy!

[image: Sign the
Petition]<http://act.sumofus.org/go/4564?t=1&akid=5478.5687069.Ehj9Gc>

Dear Beth,

*Facebook just announced a new feature to its app, which will let it listen
to our conversations through our own phones’ microphone.* Talk about a Big
Brother move.

Facebook says the feature will be used for harmless things, like
identifying the song or TV show playing in the background, but it actually
has the ability to listen to everything -- including your private
conservations -- and store it indefinitely.

Not only is this move just downright creepy, *it’s also a massive threat to
our privacy.* This isn’t the first time Facebook has been criticized for
breaching our right to privacy, and it’s hoping this feature will fly under
the radar. No such luck for Facebook. If we act now, we can stop Facebook
in its tracks before it has a chance to release the feature.

Tell Facebook not to release its creepy and dangerous new app feature that
listens to users’
conversations.<http://act.sumofus.org/go/4564?t=2&akid=5478.5687069.Ehj9Gc>

*Facebook says it'll be responsible with this feature, but we know we can't
trust it.* After all, just a few months ago Facebook came under fire for
receiving millions of dollars for working with the National Security
Agency’s PRISM, a wide-scale and highly controversial public electronic
data surveillance program -- something its CEO Mark Zuckerberg initially
denied. This is also the company that lied about its now-scuttered Beacon
program -- an advertisement system that sent our “private” data from
external websites to Facebook.

It seems like every few months, there's another big Facebook privacy
scandal, and yet the social media giant is pushing this new app anyway.
Why? The *information it gathers by listening to its 1.2 billion users
worldwide can be sold for huge profits to advertisers and corporations
looking for better information on consumer tastes* and preferences.

Facebook is acting in the best interests of its bank account, not its
users. This has gone too far -- we have to stop it now.

Facebook: This is an extreme invasion of your users’ privacy. Do not
release this new feature, and do not listen to us through our phones’
microphones. <http://act.sumofus.org/go/4564?t=3&akid=5478.5687069.Ehj9Gc>

Thanks for standing up for our right to privacy,
Kaytee, Angus, Ledys, Sahar and the rest of us



**********
More information:

Facebook Microphone Update To Store Data: Social Media Giant Confirms New
Feature Will Aggregate
Information<http://act.sumofus.org/go/4546?t=4&akid=5478.5687069.Ehj9Gc>
International
Business Times, May 22, 2014.
Facebook Wants To Listen In On What You're
Doing<http://act.sumofus.org/go/4561?t=5&akid=5478.5687069.Ehj9Gc>Forbes,
May 22, 2014.


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