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by CaptainZapp 4410 days ago
Oh, and this has nothing to do with Facebook's atrocious behavior in all things privacy?
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Unless your fear is that Facebook wants to record your conversations on the sly, then yes, that is a completely insane thing to be worried about, and I'd ask for proof.

Facebook doing what Shazam does doesn't somehow make it more skeevy.

> Unless your fear is that Facebook wants to record your conversations on the sly

Why wouldn't they do that? They could get more valuable marketing data. If they run voice recognition software, they can automatically pick out brand names, or listen in if you're talking about upcoming purchases. Maybe they overhear you having a fight with your spouse, so they can position ads for divorce attorneys when you log in to Facebook.

> Facebook doing what Shazam does doesn't somehow make it more skeevy.

Yes, it does, because Facebook is inherently a way skeevier company than Shazam. All you have to do is look at their history to date to see that.

Or, you know, just track everything you do by listening, building up ever more details on you.

>> Facebook doing what Shazam does doesn't somehow make it more skeevy.

Of course it does.

I'm sure Shazam and SoundHound just throw away all that useful metadata too...
I'm sure they don't.

On the other hand they are not in a position to combine it with a truckload of your (partially at least) most intimate data, sucked up with all their other data gathering ventures.

For what it's worth: I'm putting my money where my mouth is and "deleted" my Facebook account years ago.

Kind of OT but take a look at this [0]. They've actually just announced good privacy changes.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7783609