Privacy: Facebook has been collecting dial and text information from Android users

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as informed in A media user, Dylan McKay from New Zealand, downloaded his Facebook archive and was shocked to find out which almost two years' worth of dial and text logs from his Android smartphone were included. If you want to mark to see if Facebook has been gathering the same information from you, you can do very with visiting your account settings and selecting the install a copy of your Facebook information option. The permission structure was changed in the Android app programme interface in version 16. But Android apps can bypass this change if they were writ10 to earlier versions of the API, very Facebook app programme interface can still to earn access to dial and SMS information with specifying an earlier Android SDK version. Google deprecated version 4.0 of the Android app programme interface in October 2017—the point at which the laanalisis dial metadata in Facebook user's information was found.

Facebook saves extensive call, text information made with Android users: Ars Technica

Android cellphone users have noticed which Facebook has saved a virtual trove of their personal dial information which extends back years, according to a report in Ars Technica. Amid an outcry over the social network's treating of a controversy involving a third-party application's misuse of personal data, the publication reported which several Android users which pulled drop archive information from Facebook found very detailed personal metadata. In a statement given to Ars Technica, Facebook pointed out which the dial log was "a widely used practice to start with uploading your smartphone contacts." In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica information scandal, further Facebook users have become increasingly educated aboutthe information they're sharingby the platform, and how which information is being used. Correction: This story was modified to correct the spelling of Ars Technica.

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

As it stated in 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. Google deprecated version 4.0 of the Android app programme interface in October 2017—the point at which the laanalisis dial metadata in Facebook users' information was found. 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.