Facebook is listening to you. Literally. 28MAI14

 
facebook is evil, and it's spying on it's users reaches a new level of evil with this app. Sign the petition from +SumOfUs .org telling facebook NOT to release this app, their latest invasion of our privacy....

Facebook just announced a new feature to its app, which will let it listen to users’ private conversations through their phones’ microphones. Tell Facebook to stop invading our privacy!

Facebook just announced a new feature to its app, which will let it listen to our conversations through our own phones’ microphone. Talk about a Big Brother move.
Facebook says the feature will be used for harmless things, like identifying the song or TV show playing in the background, but it actually has the ability to listen to everything -- including your private conservations -- and store it indefinitely.
Not only is this move just downright creepy, it’s also a massive threat to our privacy. This isn’t the first time Facebook has been criticized for breaching our right to privacy, and it’s hoping this feature will fly under the radar. No such luck for Facebook. If we act now, we can stop Facebook in its tracks before it has a chance to release the feature.
Tell Facebook not to release its creepy and dangerous new app feature that listens to users’ conversations.
Facebook says it'll be responsible with this feature, but we know we can't trust it. After all, just a few months ago Facebook came under fire for receiving millions of dollars for working with the National Security Agency’s PRISM, a wide-scale and highly controversial public electronic data surveillance program -- something its CEO Mark Zuckerberg initially denied. This is also the company that lied about its now-scuttered Beacon program -- an advertisement system that sent our “private” data from external websites to Facebook.
It seems like every few months, there's another big Facebook privacy scandal, and yet the social media giant is pushing this new app anyway. Why? The information it gathers by listening to its 1.2 billion users worldwide can be sold for huge profits to advertisers and corporations looking for better information on consumer tastes and preferences.
Facebook is acting in the best interests of its bank account, not its users. This has gone too far -- we have to stop it now.
Facebook: This is an extreme invasion of your users’ privacy. Do not release this new feature, and do not listen to us through our phones’ microphones.
Thanks for standing up for our right to privacy,
Kaytee, Angus, Ledys, Sahar and the rest of us

**********
More information:
Facebook Microphone Update To Store Data: Social Media Giant Confirms New Feature Will Aggregate Information International Business Times, May 22, 2014.
Facebook Wants To Listen In On What You're Doing Forbes, May 22, 2014.


SumOfUs is a worldwide movement of people like you, working together to hold corporations accountable for their actions and forge a new, sustainable path for our global economy. Please help keep SumOfUs strong by chipping in $3.

Urgent: Say NO to Big Brother. STOP CISPA, THE ONLINE SPYING BILL from CREDO ACTION 26APR12

THE vote on cispa will happen tomorrow, 27APR12, so we need as many people as possible to call Congress and demand they vote against this law and to protect our civil liberties. Click the link from Credo to participate.....

Click below for a sample script and the number to call: We need to send a clear message to everyone in Congress that we shouldn't sacrifice our civil liberties in the name of national security. With a vote scheduled for Friday, we need you to make a call today. TAKE ACTION NOW Urgent: Stop the online spying bill. We need to speak out today to stop a bill that would greatly expand the power of the federal government and big corporations to spy on us as we use the Internet. The legislation is official named the "Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act," but more commonly called by the acronym "CISPA." Supporters of CISPA are cynically using the legitimate need to protect our vital national interests from cyber attacks as an excuse to give the government and private companies the authority to read, watch and listen to everything we do on the Internet. A vote on CISPA will happen tomorrow. So speakout today. Pick up the phone and tell your member of Congressto stop the online spying bill. Click here for a sample script and the number to call. The folks behind CISPA claim that national security interests make this surveillance necessary. But the bill's language is so vague and overreaching that it opens the door for rampant abuse of our online rights: CISPA would allow companies and the government to bypass privacy protections and spy on your email traffic, comb through your text messages, filter your online content and even block access to popular websites. CISPA would permit companies to give the government your Facebook data, Twitter history and cellphone contacts. It would also allow the government to search your email using the vaguest of justifications — and without any real legal oversight. CISPA contains sweeping language that could be used as a blunt weapon to silence whistleblower websites like WikiLeaks and the news organizations that publish their revelations. CISPA would create a culture in which we refrain from speaking freely online for fear that the National Security Agency could come knocking. Make a call and tell your member of Congressto stop the online spying bill. Click here for a sample script and the number to call. This week, in response to concerns from civil liberty and consumer advocates, members of Congress proposed five amendments they said would allay those concerns. But even with these changes, CISPA would still give the NSA — the domestic spying agency — additional power to snoop on our texts, our emails, our web history and everything else we do online. The White House agrees that this is a problem. Yesterday, it made the surprising move to publicly oppose CISPA. While the White House's opposition to CISPA is welcome, CISPA is just the latest in a series of ill-conceived attacks on our online civil liberties. So we need to send a clear message to everyone in Congress that we shouldn't sacrifice our civil liberties in the name of national security. That is why we need you to make a call regardless of where your member of Congress stands on this issue. Members of Congress who are with us, need to know their constituents support them. And members of Congress who aren't with us, need to be put on notice that their constituents don't want them to sell us out. With a vote expected tomorrow, we need you to make a call today. Tell your member of Congress to stop the online spying bill. Click the link below for a sample script and the number to call: http://act.credoaction.com/call/report/signup.html?cp_id=221 Thank you for standing up for our civil liberties. Matt Lockshin, Campaign Manager CREDO Action from Working Assets