@ForgottenSeer 58943 Could you try and find out for me if the data presented on the take-out data is literally what they have on you, or if there's going to be heaps of data about you not shown on the take-out data? If any of your sources know the answer? Would really like to know this...
And if you delete Facebook, do they ever even "delete" the data after a time period?
I will pull my notes from him when I get some time.
One thing he told me was it's not raw audio, that would consume too much traffic and be too difficult to handle. It's tag cloud like transcribed audio that cannot be reversed back into audio after FB receives the transcribed audio tag data. So for example captures from your room audio might look to FB something like this;
When FB said 'we do not listen in to your rooms and conversations' they weren't technically lying.. They don't actually listen to your conversation they PULL DATA from your conversation. So they were being purposefully obtuse. The problem with the transcribed tag data is it is enough data to understand the full context of a conversation while not being totally aware of the content of the conversation.
So if you say to your friend: "Where did you
BUY the
NEW SUBARU from a few days ago?". The TG Transcription will take BUY/NEW/SUBARU and formulate the targeted advertising based on only that part of the full sentence.
It's actually an incredible intelligence gathering tool because it doesn't require enough data transmission to draw scrutiny. Also, the whole FB app hogging battery? Well... Now you know why, it's performing these transcribe activities which require CPU/GPU cycles on your device and as a result, increased battery draw.
Is this used for surveillance as well? Nobody knows exactly where that data goes, even the whistleblowers, but there is a BROAD ASSUMPTION the data is being shared with partners. Including intelligence sub-contractors and shell corporations.
So the first question is, if you remove app permissions. It won't help. There are back end, pre-approved service level permissions that cannot be disabled. If you purchase a new phone you'll likely find FB services running on the service level of the phones. You can often disable these, and probably should. But keep in mind FB gathers this data even if you aren't on FB and potentially through voice print of others around you that ARE on FB. So they likely know who you are even if you aren't on FB, including your voice print. I suspect more evidence of that will come out eventually. I'm taking up sign language for the modern age.
