Facebook is Listening
No really, it is.
This week the social media giant announced a forthcoming mobile app that uses your smartphone's microphone to identify the music, movie, or TV show playing in the background. Users will then get the option to share this as a 'visual' post.
Facebook promises that while no sound is stored, the data is archived.
What's this mean? Your guess is as good as ours. But it appears to create the potential for Facebook to eavesdrop on private conversations.
Many people are understandably uncomfortable with that. Read more here.