Security News > 2021 > November > Facebook and Google "listening" is more pervasive than you think
At breakfast, she was convinced either Facebook or Google was listening to her the previous night.
You see, Facebook knows my mother-in-law and I are friends on the platform.
That could have gone two ways: Facebook could have run the algorithm on every friend associated with my Facebook account or it could limit it to only the friends I'd been in close contact with over X days.
Companies like Facebook will never understand or learn from a situation such as the one I experienced over the weekend.
Companies like Facebook do themselves no favors in making it very challenging for users to gain even a semblance of privacy with the platform.
People aren't clicking on Facebook ads the way they used to, and situations, like the one I experienced over the weekend, are fueling that fire of mistrust.