Facebook Files a patent to find out who you live with
Facebook already knows many more things about you than you imagine; For example, you can deduct your financial situation. But the company can always go a step further, as it did when registering this patent to find out who you live with. We tell you how it would work.
When we give a like on Facebook, follow someone on Instagram, tag a friend on a photo, or click on an ad that appears on our wall we are not really aware of how valuable that information is.
And the social networks that we use every day are not really free: we do not pay to use Facebook with money, we pay with our data.
It is possible that Facebook knows us better than many of the people with whom we interact frequently in the social network. They can deduct from your political ideology to your financial situation, and they may be able to do much more.
Reflect of it are the patents of Facebook. About a year and a half ago Zuckerberg’s company patented software that could find out who you live with based on your interaction in the social network, and has recently been made public. Even you are a pro Facebook user and play good with privacy settings to Go invisible on Facebook you are also there.
As they describe in the registry, they would analyse how often you appear with certain people in photos, and also the text that accompanies said photos; For example, some hashtags could be quite revealing. The frequency of interaction between users would also be a relevant factor. However, the most revealing thing would be that both users use the same IP address , they explain from Forbes .
This would serve to show the same announcements to the cohabitants, and analyse how well advertisements are working at home.
That Facebook has registered this patent does not mean that it will actually develop and use the software. As they explain from the company, many times they register ideas without having plans to carry them out, and they remain in a mere patent.
In fact, it is not the strangest patent registered by Facebook. Among some of the most chilling is predicting the future, advancing from the birth of a new relative to your own death.
