Zuckerberg confirms: Facebook does not spy on you through your microphone - https://mspu.co/2JBxS2f pic.twitter.com/BGI8W6C4MF
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Zuckerberg confirms: Facebook does not spy on you through your microphone - https://mspu.co/2JBxS2f pic.twitter.com/BGI8W6C4MF
Wait, where does he actually deny this? Certainly not in any of the quotes in your article.
He said it live. He didn't say that Facebook never did it, he just said that it doesn't currently do it. He also said he can't see any WhatsApp messages, but left the door open to scraping all kinds of data off Messenger.
Maybe sort of. The testimony seemed carefully calculated around saying “we don’t use X data for Y purpose” without ruling out e.g. recording all data, storing it forever, and doing whatever they want with it in the future.
Zuck made it sound like the only audio data captured was from camera services. Regardless, he did plainly state that they do in fact delete all data they have for you if you properly delete your Facebook account.
“Made it sound like” 
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