{"id":1621,"date":"2013-04-12T12:46:45","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T16:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/?p=1621"},"modified":"2020-02-26T18:56:30","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T14:56:30","slug":"blackberry-video-leaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/blackberry-video-leaks\/1621\/","title":{"rendered":"BlackBerry Feature Displays What You’re Watching for All to See"},"content":{"rendered":"

BlackBerry\u2019s preeminent Z10 smartphone (and other devices running the BlackBerry operating system<\/a> beyond version 4.5 for that matter) has a feature built-into its messaging service called \u201cShow What I\u2019m Listening To.\u201d When enabled, the feature displays the media files you are playing, whether they\u2019re songs, videos, or voice notes, to all the contacts in your BlackBerry Messenger account.<\/p>\n

\"Blackberry<\/a><\/p>\n

The feature is great if you\u2019re the kind of person who likes to broadcast your exquisite taste in music to your entire contact list. However, the feature isn\u2019t so great for those of us who like to keep our guilty pleasures to ourselves. Don\u2019t get me wrong, I like blasting super catchy Katy Perry pop hits as much as the next guy, but I don\u2019t want anyone to know about it ever.<\/p>\n

Google\u2019s Talk application has a similar feature that users can turn on, but it only displays music. So, sure, you could potentially embarrass yourself by letting all your contacts know that you\u2019re listening to the latest Taylor Swift album, but, unlike BlackBerry\u2019s feature, you don\u2019t have to worry about your entire contact list figuring out that you\u2019ve wasted the whole day watching cat videos or reruns of some terrible reality television show or worse.<\/p>\n

\"Gtalk\"<\/a><\/p>\n

If the \u2018Show What I\u2019m Listening To\u2019 feature were turned on by default, we\u2019d be talking about an egregious privacy<\/a> violation of the highest order.\u00a0Fortunately, users that want to run the feature will have to ensure that they\u2019re running BlackBerry Device Software version 4.6 or later before heading into BlackBerry Messenger, pressing the menu key on the contacts screen, checking the box that says \u201cShow What I\u2019m Listening To,\u201d pressing the menu key again, and saving their settings change.<\/p>\n

\"listening<\/a><\/p>\n

Again, the feature fits nicely into this era of hyper-connectivity and constant-content sharing<\/a>. However, as alluded to above, and as illustrated in this CrackBeryy forum post<\/a>, you should really consider all the privacy implications before turning on the \u201cShow What I\u2019m Listening To\u201d feature.<\/p>\n

You should really consider all the privacy implications before turning on the \u201cShow What I\u2019m Listening To\u201d feature.<\/div>\n

Furthermore, once the feature is turned on, you\u2019ll want to be cognizant of that and pay attention to the kinds of media you\u2019re playing, because \u201cShow What I\u2019m Listening To\u201d doesn\u2019t differentiate between the acceptable and the humiliating.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BlackBerry\u2019s preeminent Z10 smartphone (and other devices running the BlackBerry operating system beyond version 4.5 for that matter) has a feature built-into its messaging service called \u201cShow What I\u2019m Listening<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":1633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[379,43,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-1621","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-blackberry","9":"tag-privacy","10":"tag-smartphone"},"hreflang":[{"hreflang":"en-ae","url":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/blackberry-video-leaks\/1621\/"},{"hreflang":"en-in","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.in\/blog\/blackberry-video-leaks\/1621\/"},{"hreflang":"en-us","url":"https:\/\/usa.kaspersky.com\/blog\/blackberry-video-leaks\/1621\/"},{"hreflang":"en-gb","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.uk\/blog\/blackberry-video-leaks\/1621\/"},{"hreflang":"x-default","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/blackberry-video-leaks\/1621\/"},{"hreflang":"ja","url":"https:\/\/blog.kaspersky.co.jp\/blackberry-video-leaks\/660\/"},{"hreflang":"en-au","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com.au\/blog\/blackberry-video-leaks\/1621\/"},{"hreflang":"en-za","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.za\/blog\/blackberry-video-leaks\/1621\/"}],"acf":[],"banners":"","maintag":{"url":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/tag\/blackberry\/","name":"Blackberry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15508,"href":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621\/revisions\/15508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}