Imagine sitting down for a movie. You don’t know what that movie is but when it’s over you realize you’ve been watching a secret sequel to one of your favorite movies of all time. That’s what happened to me when I first saw M. Night Shyamalan’s Split, and it was one of the best experiences I’ve ever had in a movie…
Facebook collects data on us based on how we use the app, the pages we interact with, the things we post, and so on. However did you know that Facebook actually generates a list of interests that it thinks we likes so that it can display ads that it deems to be relevant to you? According to a recent study by Pew Internet, apparently not many people do.
In their study, they found that 74% of participants did not know that Facebook kept a list of interests and traits about them, and that half of these users were uncomfortable that the company had created such a list in the first place. Now to Facebook’s credit, these aren’t some kind of secretive list that they have locked away in some vault only accessible by Facebook.
These are actually lists that you can see for yourself via Facebook’s ad preferences page, but the fact that many people did not know about this makes it almost as good as hidden. Facebook has since responded to the study in a statement to The Verge where they admit that better education needs to be done on how internet-based advertising works.
“We want people to understand how our ad settings and controls work. That means better ads for people. While we and the rest of the online ad industry need to do more to educate people on how interest-based advertising works and how we protect people’s information, we welcome conversations about transparency and control.”
Study Finds Most Users Aren’t Aware That Facebook Keeps A List Of Their Interests , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
The president’s nominee for AG spelled out obstruction, and it sounds a lot like what’s in the new BuzzFeed report.
Facebook is making big changes behind closed doors, according to a new report, by restructuring its augmented reality glasses division and moving those employees into a newly launched standalone team dedicated specifically to the product. These employees were moved from the company’s Facebook Reality Labs to the new product team, where they’re reportedly working on multiple AR products. Last October, … Continue reading
After streaming giant Netflix came under fire for including footage of a real-life, deadly incident that occurred in Canada in its breakout monster movie Bird Box, the company said Thursday it will not pull that imagery from the film.
Just like the majority of smartphones out there, the iPhone has a camera shortcut which users can access even when their phone is locked. However it does require that the phone’s display be turned on first. This isn’t a big deal but in crucial moments, this added “delay” could result in photos or videos missing critical context.
This might be an exaggeration but isn’t faster better? That’s what Apple seems to be exploring in a patent that was recently discovered. This patent describes how an iPhone could launch the camera app automatically when the phone is picked up and held in a way that suggests that you might want to take a photo or video.
The patent description reads in part, “Apparatus and method for automatically activating a camera application based on detecting an intent to capture a photograph or a video.” We’re not sure what kind of position will determine your intent at taking a photo since sometimes photos are taken in portrait orientation, while sometimes it is taken in landscape orientation.
However the patent also describes a potential use of a proximity sensor on the back of the phone which could be used to detect if there is a subject in the frame. That being said, we imagine that this could get annoying as sometimes you don’t want to take a photo but the camera app launches anyway, but the good news is that since this is a patent, it’s not a guarantee that it could make it into future iPhones or iOS builds.
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