Update after 10 months
It seems that there are more and more these strange reports. Personalized advertisements in fact why it was spoken on the phone, in a private conversation, in a room or in a space, other than online communication paths.
I do not know whether or not it is a matter of paranoia, but it often happens that the big companies will have to "glitches"As regards Privacy convesatiile girl chat, of personal data and other private information of users.
Facebook says they don't listen and don't register your voice conversations What takes place through the application between users, but "we do not" how it is done as a result of a voice call via Facebook in which there is talk of "flowers", Facebook begins to deliver in the advertising spaces advertisements of flowers and other profile companies. This is not looking for Google or Facebook anything related to this area and has not been written in messages.
Most likely the voice conversation was "listened to" and for this reason the advertisements in the feed were in the respective field. Now let's not think that someone is physically listening to these calls. There are robots (bests) that do this.
Facebook comes with clarification and says it does not use the microphone for advertising purposes or to influence the news flow on the user page. According to the company, the microphone is used only for vocal calls or for vocal and / or video recordings made by users. The microphone cannot be used by the Facebook or Messenger application without the user's permission.
Facebook does not use your phone’s microphone to inform ads or to change what you see in News Feed. Some recent articles have suggested that we must be listening to people’s conversations in order to show them relevant ads. This is not true. We show ads based on people’s interests and other profile information – not what you’re talking out loud about.
We only access your microphone if you have given our app permission and if you are actively using a specific feature that requires audio. This might include recording a video or using an optional feature we introduced two years ago to include music or other audio in your status updates.
However, coincidences are frightening and many users wonder if it is better for Facebook and Messenger to have no access to the smartphone or iPhone microphone.
How can we prevent / block the Facebook Messenger application to use the iPhone microphone
1. We open "Settings” > “Privacy"
2. In the confidentiality settings - Privacy - we go to the microphone - Microphone.
3. At the "microphone" we have listed the applications that solocita permission to use the microphone from iPhone or iPad.
Deactivate the microphone for the Messenger
When you are called through Facebook Messenger, the application will ask you whether or not you give it access to the microphone.
It is the choice of each user to determine whether or not he wants.
Of course, it is not necessary to drop in paranoia as calls are answered. It is known that this can be done at the level of mobile operator or by other special services.
As far as they know, the most secure voice and video calls that can't be decrypted are those made by Apple servers with the help of FaceTime, presence on all the devices of the company. iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, Imac, MacBook.
