Facebook, or Facecrook as we like to call them, is a spy tool and nothing more. It has already been shown that Facebook and Google have worked with the NSA and other government agencies to spy on unsuspecting Americans, but i doubt that many Facebook users realize that Facebook is also logging much of the private things that you do on your phone.
Facebook Using Your Phone to Spy On You – Allegedly Logs All Phone Calls, Texts, Location & More
“a review of my Google Play data confirms that Messenger was never installed on the Android devices I used. Facebook was installed on a Nexus tablet I used and on the Blackphone 2 in 2015, and there was never an explicit message requesting access to phone call and SMS data. Yet there is call data from the end of 2015 until late 2016, when I reinstalled the operating system on the Blackphone 2 and wiped all applications. While data collection was technically ‘opt-in,’ in both these cases the opt-in was the default installation mode for Facebook’s application, not a separate notification of data collection.”
Question: Why would Facebook have a need to log everyone’s texts and phone calls and many other activities on your phone?
Answer: To spy on you.
Facebook isn’t just logging the things that you do using their app. No, it seems that everyone who installed the Facebook app has unintentionally given Facebook the right to snoop through most if not all of your phone and harvest that data for nefarious purposes. And Facebook has taken full advantage of their ability to spy on you through your phone.
Why do you think that Facebook’s Chief Security Officer, Max Kelly, left Facebook to work at the NSA spy agency?
Facebook’s Android app has been collecting data on its users’ phone calls and texts outside of the platform, prompting privacy concerns from consumers who didn’t know just how far Facebook’s data collection efforts really go.
According to a report by Ars Technica, Facebook has been recording the data of its users’ phone calls and texts for a number of years.
“This past week, a New Zealand man was looking through the data Facebook had collected from him in an archive he had pulled down from the social networking site. While scanning the information Facebook had stored about his contacts, Dylan McKay discovered something distressing: Facebook also had about two years’ worth of phone call metadata from his Android phone, including names, phone numbers, and the length of each call made or received,” the news outlet reported. “This experience has been shared by a number of other Facebook users who spoke with Ars, as well as independently by us — my own Facebook data archive, I found, contained call-log data for a certain Android device I used in 2015 and 2016, along with SMS and MMS message metadata.”
Following the report, Facebook attempted to ease concerns from its users in a blog post, Sunday, where the company claimed news reports had been inaccurate.
“You may have seen some recent reports that Facebook has been logging people’s call and SMS (text) history without their permission. This is not the case,” claimed Facebook. “Call and text history logging is part of an opt-in feature for people using Messenger or Facebook Lite on Android. This helps you find and stay connected with the people you care about, and provides you with a better experience across Facebook. People have to expressly agree to use this feature.”
However, despite Facebook’s claims that users had to explicitly opt-in to the data collecting, Ars Technica noted that in several cases users had not.
“This contradicts the experience of several users who shared their data with Ars. Dylan McKay told Ars that he installed Messenger in 2015, but only allowed the app the permissions in the Android manifest that were required for installation,” Ars Technica explained. “He says he removed and reinstalled the app several times over the course of the next few years, but never explicitly gave the app permission to read his SMS records and call history.”
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