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One more example of why never being on 'social media' sites continues to be the right decision.
Screw you Facebook, you go die now.

Well, duh. It would have to allow that permission wise to make calls via the app. As much of a privacy advocate as I am, this seems like a non-story.

And what if it doesn't like the NSA forces them with a warrant?

Wouldn't deleting the Facebook app from your smartphone destroy their microphone hijacks?

Personally, I assume they are monitoring everything and act accordingly.

I made a free phone call from Germany to my wife in Texas using the app. My phones carrier would have cost me at least .50 cents a minute.

NSA knows what's best for you.

I mean, surely their filtering algorithms have already analyzed a more accurate profile of you, than what your psychiatrist ever could? What with all the years of records of your internet searches, emails and videosift comments..

Seriously though, about this nice video, if you have a popular smartphone, no matter how you trust that fruit, droid or window logo, there's seriously no real guarantees that your activities are not recorded in whichever way, whenever. Any data on 'customers' is precious to these companies, or the NSA for that matter.

To be a bit cynical, I'd say that most people don't mind, they can't perceive anything strongly negative to come out of any of these privacy breaches. After all, so far the system has kept them relatively safe from the other ones, the evil ones.

To be even more cynical I'd say this hip guy, 10k likes on FB and all, seems to be quite smoothly riding the next generation's "My mom uses FB" disdain to .. I don't know? Maybe try to gain respect among this, certainly most sought after viewer demography, the younger generation, about to become consumers?

It could even be that he makes money on ads on YT views? But certainly Youtube, or their parent company, would never breach anyone's privacy, or make questionable sudden changes to their TOCs? Say, they wouldn't use the Chrome browser's or the Android OS's capabilities to use a connected mic to sift through recorded data?

Well, in any case, I've got to appreciate anyone who makes these matters more public and talked about, what ever their motives might be.

On another topic, as a loyal user of Google's mostly brilliant services, and mobile operating system, I was quite surprised to realize that I could see where I (or my phone) had been about, through their service here: https://maps.google.com/locationhistory

Luckily the feature can be turned off from the same site. I mean I'm sure it's off now, because I can't see any data there anymore..

I've never been on Facebook.


...and now I'm starting to be proud of it, instead of merely too lazy to bother.

It's about time someone wrote an RFC for the transmission and retrieval of social data, at least that way we could retain control of our information. I'm probably opening a whole can of worms...

Ok, I don't care what his message is, because I stopped watching after 25 seconds of that god awful stupid jumpcut editing.

I'm still waiting for his serious and thought-out argument...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_social_network

Right - I know he's making a larger point about privacy, but I feel like this should be re-titled "One of the Best Arguments for Deleting Facebook Mobile from your Phone."

Facebook Mobile allows ease of development of advanced self-induction sloped-shoulder and forward-head posture syndrome (ASISSFHPS) as well as Tween-Thumb and Stenographer's Lurch. In 2012, the *IWOT Association has Awarded Facebook their lifetime De-evolutionary Neurolinguistics Achievement Award

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Don't do it, it's a trick!!

Like someone said above, it's an app to make calls. You can't make calls without a microphone.

On another note, i've had good facebooking by not using ANY apps on it. None. My privacy rating is the best you can have.. It's Facebook, not gaming platform. Just deny every app your friends send, never ever use "share on facebook", deny all FB connect requests.

Install Ghostery, it'll keep your FB separate from other sites you visit. Same goes for twitter, google+ etc. Share via the old fashion way: copy & paste urls.

Jesus, this.

I'd love for them hipsters to get over the look-at-me-I'm-cool thing. Yes, shedding Facebook is a good first step but you gotta follow-through. Just think how much more impactful this would've been without all the oh-so clever "humor".