There is no evidence. The study showed that Facebook does not listen to your phone

Scientists at Northeastern University in the United States have decided to conduct an in-depth study of listening possibilities through application.

The authors of the experiment have conducted an experiment with more than 17,000 most popular applications on Android. The apps include those owned by Facebook, as well as more than 8,000 apps that send information to Facebook, writes Gizmodo.

Scientists have found no evidence that an application unexpectedly activates a microphone or sends audio if it is not offered. The authors of the book refuse to claim that their research definitely proves that your phone does not listen to you, but they find no case.

Instead, they found another disturbing practice: applications note the phone's screen and relay this information to third parties. Of the 17,260 applications that researchers saw, more than 9,000 had access to the camera and microphone and had the opportunity to hear the owner of the phone. Using 10 Android phones, the researchers used an automatic program to interact with each of these applications and then analyzed the generated traffic. They watched all the multimedia files that were sent, especially on the unexpected side.

They suddenly noticed that screenshots and videos of what people were doing in apps were going to third-party sites. In particular, the application GoPuff saves the screen of the device and sends a frame to the Appsee analysis company. In the privacy policy, such a feature has not been mentioned.

It would be wrong to say for sure that your phone does not hear you, partly because there are scenarios that are not covered by new work. The phones were driven by an automated program, not by humans, so gadgets can not launch apps like flesh and blood. And the phones were in a controlled environment, not wandering around the world. It is also possible that the researchers might skip recording audio conversations if the application rewrites the conversation in a text format.

Earlier NV reported that Facebook had announced the purchase of London start-up Bloomsbury AI. in the social network. Sources report that Facebook plans to use the team and technology to combat the prevalence of fake news that has spread in the social network since the 2016 general election in the United States.