Facebook’s Patents Reveals Its Creepy Plans To Collect More Data

[asus killer]

Facebook recently promised to mend their ways, so let's hope that goes through. Still i think it's important to see how far they were planing to go, even because the CEO claimed it was never their intention to go that far.

The New York times went through their patents and it shows a lot of creepy plans:

 

1. Profiling your relationship status

This patent analyzes data like how many times you check out another user’s profile or the number of persons in your profile picture to predict where you are involved in a romantic relationship.

2. Categorizing based on your personality

One patent suggests the use of personal messages and posts to analyze personality traits. By determining the extent of extroversion, your emotional stability and thought process, it could target you with news stories or ads you might like.

3. Predicting your future

This patent application proposes using your messages and posts along with credit card transactions and location to predict occurrences of major life events like birth, death or graduation.

4. Identifying your camera

Another patent suggests analyzing of photographs to establish a unique camera “signature” based on faulty pixels or scratches on the lens. This signature could be used to find out who have uploaded pictures clicked by your device.

5. Eavesdropping on you

This one aims to use phone’s microphone to listen and identify which TV shows you watch and ads you mute.

6. Tracking your daily routine

This one is really creepy and dangerous as it suggests monitoring your weekly routine and notifying other users in case of any deviations from the routine – how to make stalking easy 101. Moreover, it proposes using phone’s location at midnight to track the exact place where you live.

7. Using location service to establish a pattern

This patent describes using your phone location as well as your friends’ to determine whom you are closest to and where you hang out. Also, it suggests monitoring phone to track how many hours of sleep you get.

 

I don't think there will be someone reading this list and not finding it disturbing, and i find it even harder to believe Mark Zuckerger recent assurences they will make changes to protect user data and that this was just "mistakes" to quote him.
 

 

https://fossbytes.com/facebooks-patents-reveals-creepy-plans-to-collect-more-data/

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/06/21/opinion/sunday/facebook-patents-privacy.html

[ItsMitch]

5 minutes ago, asus killer said:

5. Eavesdropping on you

This one aims to use phone’s microphone to listen and identify which TV shows you watch and ads you mute.

 

Don't they already do this? Heard a story a while back where a couple was getting relevant ads for cat/dog food when they was talking about it. 

[NMS]

I feel extremely smug for not using Facebook for about 8 years now.

The zuckman's got nothing on me!

[mynameisjuan]

Wow they will know I am in a relationship......what ever will I do....

 

Your info is already out there. I dont get this paranoia about people "stealing" your data. 

[aezakmi]

meh I don't even use it, I'm more the forum type, I'm in a few mirc rooms but nothing too serious, my friends live near me so we just hang out if we want to talk about stuff

[dizmo]

And yet so many of y'all still use it.

[dizmo]

5 minutes ago, gabrielcarvfer said:

They already do 1 and 2, but probably didn't want to patent it as it would make their work public.
Credit card companies and banks already do 3, and they don't need messages for that.

Some universities already shown techniques for 4, and some police forces are already using.
5 has been always a possibility.

Google already do 6 and 7.

So....that makes it fine? WTF kind of attitude is that?

[Drak3]

6 minutes ago, dizmo said:

y'all

Confirmation that in every Canuck is a sassy black woman.

13 minutes ago, NMS said:

I feel extremely smug for not using Facebook for about 8 years now.

The zuckman's got nothing on me!

If you visit any site with a FB like or share button, they have a profile of information on you.

[Delicieuxz]

Is it possible for the public to identify which companies are making use of a patent, just as it is for the public to see who owns a patent?

 

 

Also, Microsoft is probably doing all of these things with Windows 10.

[NMS]

4 minutes ago, Drak3 said:

Confirmation that in every Canuck is a sassy black woman.

If you visit any site with a FB like or share button, they have a profile of information on you.

And I have no profile on Facebook so that does absolutely nothing, as far as I'm aware.

[Christophe Corazza]

26 minutes ago, asus killer said:

3. Predicting your future

This patent application proposes using your messages and posts along with credit card transactions and location to predict occurrences of major life events like birth, death or graduation.

 

I haven't seen any ads for pre payment funerals popping up on my feed. That's reassuring.

 

[Brooksie359]

6 minutes ago, Drak3 said:

Confirmation that in every Canuck is a sassy black woman.

If you visit any site with a FB like or share button, they have a profile of information on you.

I believe addblock would prevent this if I remember correctly. 

[Drak3]

3 minutes ago, NMS said:

And I have no profile on Facebook so that does absolutely nothing, as far as I'm aware.

They create one on your behalf.

1 minute ago, Brooksie359 said:

I believe addblock would prevent this if I remember correctly. 

Only if it/you run anti scripts that stop it, and you clean out ypur cookies with the cleansing fire of a vengeful god.

[Christophe Corazza]

4 minutes ago, VegetableStu said:

*googles persistent cough*

"huh, webMD says I might die, LOL"

*facebook dot com*

"huh, ads say I might die, LOL"

 

The end is near. It all comes together now: 

 

 

[Brooksie359]

1 minute ago, Drak3 said:

They create one on your behalf.

Only if it/you run anti scripts that stop it, and you clean out ypur cookies with the cleansing fire of a vengeful god.

I think all think would have on me is that I watch YouTube and twitch and go on this forum. That is if the adblocker doesn't prevent that. Also how would they know the identity of the person who they are tracking?

[TacoSenpai]

I would tell Facebook to go to hell but that would be the equivalent of telling Satan to go home.

[Cheezdoodlez]

How the hell would Facebook have access to my credit card transactions?? 

[Drak3]

6 minutes ago, Brooksie359 said:

I think all think would have on me is that I watch YouTube and twitch and go on this forum. That is if the adblocker doesn't prevent that. Also how would they know the identity of the person who they are tracking?

Between cookies, email information, FB can backcheck everything needed for an advertising profile.

 

5 minutes ago, Cheezdoodlez said:

How the hell would Facebook have access to my credit card transactions?? 

eCommerce often has FB plugins.

[Cookybiscuit]

Remember that this is only the stuff they are telling you about.

[TheGlenlivet]

FACEBOOK, note even once.....

[BuckGup]

49 minutes ago, SC2Mitch said:

Don't they already do this? Heard a story a while back where a couple was getting relevant ads for cat/dog food when they was talking about it. 

Yeah they do and I actually have been documenting it over the past couple weeks

[Bananasplit_00]

1 hour ago, NMS said:

I feel extremely smug for not using Facebook for about 8 years now.

The zuckman's got nothing on me!

Oh but he does... Any site you have visited with that share on FB thing he knows you visited. They track people "without" accounts too

[DildorTheDecent]

1 hour ago, asus killer said:

This patent analyzes data like how many times you check out another user’s profile or the number of persons in your profile picture to predict where you are involved in a romantic relationship.

*checks out brothers profile*

 

Facebook: You gay with your bro? That's weird man.

 

Zucc pls no.

[aezakmi]

2 hours ago, VegetableStu said:

there's one for Whatsapp eavesdropping for FB ads isn't it?! O_O

yeah I'm more of the "a community worth looking into is one with a team of moderators" kind too ._.

(although I'm not sure how are the ramifications like if an internet personality with no twitter handles get brigaded IRL o_o)

not about the mods it's about the way a forum works, you know, threads and comments about a specific topic, sections, quoting users just like in this comment, fb is way too different

 

1 hour ago, gabrielcarvfer said:

Didn't say that, just said that there are a bunch of people that already do that and that nobody seems to care. For those who whant their privacy back: close all accounts, don't buy smart/connected crap, pay only with cash, and even then you're still going to be spied upon.

I pay with cash bc I'm broke af to have a card

[Fasterthannothing]

The joys of not have any social media, running a pfSense router with ad blocking, and running script/tracking blockers. And everyone thought I was crazy to not have social media and having  insane security practices such as carrying around a YubiKey and using a custom made router to block crap.