Facebook's been collecting your call and text logs for years
Facebook also says it is possible to turn off the setting that syncs a person's call and text history.
If you granted permission to read contacts during Facebook's installation on Android a few versions ago-specifically before Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean)-that permission also granted Facebook access to call and message logs by default. "Contact importers are fairly common among social apps and services as a way to more easily find the people you want to connect with". People are expressly asked if they want to give permission to upload their contacts from their phone. "While we receive certain permissions from Android, uploading this information has always been opt-in only", a Facebook spokesperson stated in a blog post.
As per The Guardian, Facebook makes it hard for users to delete their accounts, instead of pushing them towards "deactivation" of their account, which eventually leaves all personal data on the company's servers.
The feature was first introduced on Facebook Messenger in 2015 and was added later on Facebook Lite. A cache of such data - amounting to around 50m people - was passed to Cambridge Analytica, the British research firm that has become controversial for its voter targeting work with both the Trump campaign in the 2016 U.S. election and the earlier Brexit vote in the UK. "This was a breach of trust, and I'm sorry we didn't do more at the time", Zuckerberg wrote.
Reports of the data collection came as Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg took out ads in multiple US and British Sunday newspapers to apologize for the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
The findings follow days of allegations that data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica harvested data on millions of Facebook users without permission for political campaigning.
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In the advert, Mr Zuckerberg said a quiz developed by a university researcher had "leaked Facebook data of millions of people in 2014". A loophole in how Facebook handled data access for apps at the time allowed GSR to view not just the information of the people who'd actually downloaded the app but their friend networks, too.
This looks like so when you check out Dylan's thread and you would be shocked to realize how much data Facebook mines from your account.
The ad, printed in clear type over Zuckerberg's signature, begins: "We have a responsibibility to protect your information".
The greatest proportion of Facebook users surveyed, 41 per cent, said they would continue to use the platform, but would modify their usage and/or change their privacy settings and another 23 per cent said they'd use it less.
"If you start typing something and change your mind and delete it, Facebook keeps those and analyzes them too", Zeynep Tufekci, a prominent techno-sociologist, said in a 2017 TED talk.
The social networking giant also said it was investigating every app that had access to data "before we fixed this". "You can also go to this page to see which contacts you have uploaded from Messenger, and you can delete all contact information you've uploaded from that app should you choose", explains Facebook.
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