Facebook's Ears - Threats by Audio Discovery
Dominik Bärlocher · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2015
Facebook's methods have included, but were not limited to, flat out asking what our favourite movies or bands or restaurants were, then asking us if we've seen a particular movie, rolling out plugins for other social networks such as GoodReads and TripAdvisor as well as asking variations of the question «You liked $thing, you might like $relatedThing, too». All this in order to target advertising better and sell our data to advertisers and whoever else pays the money.