<div dir="ltr">Many of you will have seen this.. <div><br></div><div>More reasons to leave / mistrust / criticize FB... <div>(but where will they go if they leave?) <br><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>
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<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px 0px 7px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Times"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"><b>What 7 creepy patents reveal about Facebook<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span></p>
<p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px 0px 7px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Times;color:rgb(2,30,170)"><span class="gmail-s2" style="text-decoration:underline;font-kerning:none"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/06/21/opinion/sunday/facebook-patents-privacy.html"><b>https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/06/21/opinion/sunday/facebook-patents-privacy.html</b></a></span></p>
<p class="gmail-p3" style="margin:0px 0px 7px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Times;min-height:18px"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"><b></b></span><br></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px 0px 7px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Times"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"><b>Reading your relationships</b></span></p>
<p class="gmail-p4" style="margin:0px 0px 7px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(50,51,51)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">One patent application discusses predicting whether you’re in a romantic relationship using information such as how many times you visit another user’s page, the number of people in your profile picture and the percentage of your friends of a different gender.</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p5" style="margin:0px 0px 7px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(2,30,170)"><span class="gmail-s2" style="text-decoration:underline;font-kerning:none"><a href="https://patents.google.com/patent/US20150356180A1/en"><b>U.S. PATENT APPLICATION NO. 14/295,543</b><span class="gmail-s3" style="font:10px Arial;text-decoration:underline;font-kerning:none"><b></b></span></a></span></p>
<p class="gmail-p6" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(209,216,239)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"> </span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px 0px 7px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Times"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"><b>Classifying your personality</b></span></p>
<p class="gmail-p4" style="margin:0px 0px 7px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(50,51,51)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">Another proposes using your posts and messages to infer personality traits. It describes judging your degree of extroversion, openness or emotional stability, then using those characteristics to select which news stories or ads to display.</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p5" style="margin:0px 0px 7px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(2,30,170)"><span class="gmail-s2" style="text-decoration:underline;font-kerning:none"><a href="https://patents.google.com/patent/US9740752B2/en"><b>U.S. PATENT NO. 9,740,752</b><span class="gmail-s3" style="font:10px Arial;text-decoration:underline;font-kerning:none"><b></b></span></a></span></p>
<p class="gmail-p6" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(209,216,239)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"> </span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px 0px 7px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Times"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"><b>Predicting your future</b></span></p>
<p class="gmail-p4" style="margin:0px 0px 7px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(50,51,51)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">This patent application describes using your posts and messages, in addition to your credit card transactions and location, to predict when a major life event, such as a birth, death or graduation, is likely to occur.</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p5" style="margin:0px 0px 7px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(2,30,170)"><span class="gmail-s2" style="text-decoration:underline;font-kerning:none"><a href="https://patents.google.com/patent/US20120016817A1/en"><b>U.S. PATENT APPLICATION NO. 12/839,350</b><span class="gmail-s3" style="font:10px Arial;text-decoration:underline;font-kerning:none"><b></b></span></a></span></p>
<p class="gmail-p6" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(209,216,239)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"> </span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px 0px 7px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Times"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"><b>Identifying your camera</b></span></p>
<p class="gmail-p4" style="margin:0px 0px 7px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(50,51,51)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">Another considers analyzing pictures to create a unique camera “signature” using faulty pixels or lens scratches. That signature could be used to figure out that you know someone who uploads pictures taken on your device, even if you weren’t previously connected. Or it might be used to guess the “affinity” between you and a friend based on how frequently you use the same camera.</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p5" style="margin:0px 0px 7px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(2,30,170)"><span class="gmail-s2" style="text-decoration:underline;font-kerning:none"><a href="https://patents.google.com/patent/US8472662B2/en"><b>U.S. PATENT NO. 8,472,662</b><span class="gmail-s3" style="font:10px Arial;text-decoration:underline;font-kerning:none"><b></b></span></a></span></p>
<p class="gmail-p6" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(209,216,239)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"> </span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px 0px 7px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Times"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"><b>Listening to your environment</b></span></p>
<p class="gmail-p4" style="margin:0px 0px 7px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(50,51,51)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">This patent application explores using your phone microphone to identify the television shows you watched and whether ads were muted. It also proposes using the electrical interference pattern created by your television power cable to guess which show is playing.</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p5" style="margin:0px 0px 7px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(2,30,170)"><span class="gmail-s2" style="text-decoration:underline;font-kerning:none"><a href="https://patents.google.com/patent/US20170195435A1/en"><b>U.S. PATENT APPLICATION NO. 14/985,089</b><span class="gmail-s3" style="font:10px Arial;text-decoration:underline;font-kerning:none"><b></b></span></a></span></p>
<p class="gmail-p6" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(209,216,239)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"> </span></p>
<p class="gmail-p7" style="margin:0px 0px 7px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">Facebook Creepy Patent 6.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px 0px 7px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Times"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"><b>Tracking your routine</b></span></p>
<p class="gmail-p4" style="margin:0px 0px 7px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(50,51,51)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">Another patent application discusses tracking your weekly routine and sending notifications to other users of deviations from the routine. In addition, it describes using your phone’s location in the middle of the night to establish where you live.</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p5" style="margin:0px 0px 7px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(2,30,170)"><span class="gmail-s2" style="text-decoration:underline;font-kerning:none"><a href="https://patents.google.com/patent/US20160316341A1/en"><b>U.S. PATENT APPLICATION NO. 15/203,063</b><span class="gmail-s3" style="font:10px Arial;text-decoration:underline;font-kerning:none"><b></b></span></a></span></p>
<p class="gmail-p6" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(209,216,239)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"> </span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px 0px 7px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Times"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"><b>Inferring your habits</b></span></p>
<p class="gmail-p4" style="margin:0px 0px 7px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(50,51,51)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">This patent proposes correlating the location of your phone to locations of your friends’ phones to deduce whom you socialize with most often. It also proposes monitoring when your phone is stationary to track how many hours you sleep.</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p8" style="margin:0px 0px 5px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(2,30,170)"><span class="gmail-s2" style="text-decoration:underline;font-kerning:none"><a href="https://patents.google.com/patent/US9369983B2/en"><b>U.S. PATENT NO. 9,369,983</b><span class="gmail-s3" style="font:10px Arial;text-decoration:underline;font-kerning:none"><b></b></span></a></span></p>
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