It turns out Facebook has collected SMS and call information for Android users for years now
The scandal that leaked information of more than 50 million accounts made Facebook users extremely indignant and raised the movement to demand #DeleteFacebook, permanently delete the Facebook account. Before permanently deleting your Facebook account, many people downloaded all of their personal data on Facebook and were surprised to discover that this social network is collecting data about the list and SMS from the devices. has been Android for many years.
After downloading the archive file and extracting, many Android users have discovered inside the file also recorded all calls and messages on their phones. Only regular contacts are recorded.
According to Ars Technica, Facebook is collecting this data via Messenger, the chat app regularly suggests Androd users about using it as the default SMS message. Perhaps, Facebook has done this for years, when Google is still quite lax in managing application permissions. Later, when Google was more closely managing Facebook, it was "tricking" by calling users to update contacts through Messenger, for example.
A notification invites users to update their regular contacts data on Messenger.
After receiving the notification of this discovery, Facebook responded but surprisingly, the company thought that it was normal for the social networking application to access the call history when you updated the directory. Search for people you want to connect more easily.
Now, when did Facebook's inquiries begin to collect this information, and whether Android users agree to give Facebook access to SMS and phones under Android licensing suggestions do they really understand that they are giving Whether or not this social network allows data to be collected remains unresolved.
The collection of SMS information and call information of users has only been detected with Android users, has not detected the same incident on iOS devices. The cause may be due to Apple's very strict privacy protection policy.
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