PJ Media: Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower: Facebook Able to Listen to You at Home and Work
MP Damian Collins, who chaired the committee, asked Wyle whether Facebook has the ability to listen to what people are talking about in order to better target them with ads.Discussing the ability to listen in on users: Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie appears before MPs
"There's been various speculation about the fact that Facebook can, through the Facebook app on your smartphone, listen in to what people are talking about and discussing and using that to prioritize the advertising as well," Collins said. "Other people would say, no, they don't think it's possible. It's just that the Facebook system is just so good at predicting what you're interested in that it can guess." He asked for Wylie's thoughts on the possibility.
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