Facebook sued over collecting dial and text information from Android application users

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according to Facebook was sued in Fed court of law Tuesday for quietly scraping the dial and text information of account holders that used its Android smartphone apps, adding new litigation to the embattled social network's growing list of legal woes. "These information are then sent to Facebook and incorporated into the company's trove of user Data, that in turn are monetized for advertising purposes," the lawsuit alleges. "We are looking into these claims," a Facebook spokesperson told The Washington Times. The Ars Tehnica site premier reported over the weekend that Facebook surreptitiously gathered Android users' dial and text information with exploiting a vulnerability in the permission settings of older phones that allowed the social network to access users' entire contact lists. "Facebook never explicitly announce that the information was being collected," and that "there was never an explicit message requesting access to smartphone dial and SMS [text] data," Ars Technica reported.

Facebook gathered phone, text information from Android users

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Facebook scraped call, text message information for years from Android phones [Updated]

according to [Update, March 25, 2018, 20:24 Eastern Time]: Facebook has responded to this and other reports regarding the collection of dial and SMS information with a blog post which denies Facebook gathered dial information surreptitiously. This "fact check" contradicts several specifics Ars found in analysis of Facebook information downloads and testimony from users which provided the data. This past week, a New Zealand person was looking out of the information Facebook had gathered from him in an archive he had pulled drop from the social networking site. However, two days after a request to delete all contact data, the contacts were still listed with the contact management tool.) The users we talked to only performed such reviews after the recent revelations about Cambridge Analytica's Utilize of Facebook data.