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Facebook and Your Smartphone Camera

Facebook doesn’t use your smartphone camera unless you tell us to, and we definitely don’t use it to detect your emotions. Stories that suggest otherwise are false.

We often seek patents for technology we never implement, and patent applications — particularly those from many years ago — should not be taken as an indication of future plans.



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