#109 Is Facebook Spying on You?

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Gimlet

Society & Culture, Documentary, Technology

4.7 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2017

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

This year we’ve gotten one question more than any other from listeners: is Facebook eavesdropping on my conversations and showing me ads based on the things that I say? This week, Alex investigates. Further Reading Our guide to keep Facebook from following you around the internet can be found at http://replyall.limo/donttrackme . Facebook's official statement that it is not listening to users. Facebook's Rob Goldman (no relation) denying the same thing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	From Gimlet, this is Reply All.
0:07.4	I'm Alex Koltzik.
0:08.4	And I'm PJ Vogue.
0:09.9	PJ?
0:11.4	Yes.
0:12.4	Hi.
0:13.4	Hello.
0:14.4	So, over the course of maybe the past year, we've got a fair amount of emails from people
0:20.8	who think that Facebook and Instagram, which is owned by Facebook, are using the microphone
0:25.9	on their phone to listen to their conversations and advertise stuff to them based on the things
0:31.5	they're saying.
0:32.5	Yeah.
0:33.5	I have also gotten to these messages.
0:34.5	I've basically just felt like I don't, I think it would be such a risky thing for Facebook
0:39.4	to do.
0:40.4	They've been like, oh, it's probably just quits in some people are imagining stuff.
0:43.0	Yeah.
0:44.0	But I've been talking to this guy named JP and some of the stories that he's been telling
0:48.2	me are super hard to dismiss.
0:50.9	He told me that he first started noticing this happening at the beginning of the year.
0:54.8	I was baking pizza dough.
0:56.4	I was making pizza dough.
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