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Over the years Facebook has submitted thousands of patent applications for new and innovative ideas. Many of these aim to dig even deeper in our personal life in order to better know each one of us. What can be seen with all the following is that they serve in some sort to more efficiently target ads. We then see more invasive ads trying to manipulate us in buying stuff.<\/p>\n
1. Long term predictions<\/strong> 2. Camera Tracking<\/strong> 3. Listening Smartphones<\/strong>
\nFacebook is not only interested in our lives but also in what comes after, as one patent shows. By using information such as location, expenditure and interaction with others, they want to predict when you or your friends are most likely to die. Other significant life events like birth, graduation, moving or accident might also be determined. Our private lives are not private anymore.<\/p>\n
\nDue to imperfections of your camera or scratches on the lens, Facebook wants to find unique fingerprints based on the alteration that these faults leave on the pictures you take. From the uploaded or shared pictures, it would be possible to trace back to which camera took what photograph. This is precious information about our social environment and trust we have in other persons.<\/p>\n
\nFacebook wants to record your environment to better know what activities you are currently doing, in what order you do them and with whom. Again, this is valuable insight in our private life to better target ads. A TV show could send a unique inaudible sound, which gets recorded by your device. Consequently, it would be possible to tell what you are watching, if you watch actively or simultaneously text your friends. Can you imagine what is being recorded the next time you \u201cNetflix and chill\u201d with your Tinder date?<\/p>\n