FACEBOOK has been forced to defend a “creepy” new feature that allows it to activate your smartphone’s microphone and listen in.
The announcement of the feature has sparked an online backlash, with users mobilising in an effort to get the social media giant to kill off the development.
In what objectors have described as a “Big Brother move”, the feature turns on the phone’s mic and picks up on what is happening, such as music or a TV playing in the background.
Facebook will then automatically add at the end of their status update something like “Watching Game of Thrones” or “Listening to Coldplay”.
The feature, which works in much the same way as song-identification app Shazam, freaked out a number of Facebook users and an online petition is gathering steam.
It had received 542,544 signatures as of this morning. Full story...
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The announcement of the feature has sparked an online backlash, with users mobilising in an effort to get the social media giant to kill off the development.
In what objectors have described as a “Big Brother move”, the feature turns on the phone’s mic and picks up on what is happening, such as music or a TV playing in the background.
Facebook will then automatically add at the end of their status update something like “Watching Game of Thrones” or “Listening to Coldplay”.
The feature, which works in much the same way as song-identification app Shazam, freaked out a number of Facebook users and an online petition is gathering steam.
It had received 542,544 signatures as of this morning. Full story...
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