Facebook knew Android call-scraping would be ‘high-risk,’ new documents reveal

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as informed in In March, many Android users were shocked to discover that Facebook had been collecting a record of their call and SMS history, as detect by the company's data download tool. In another email chain, the group developing the feature seems to see the Android permissions monitor as a point of needless friction, to be avoided if possible. This contradicted the experience of many Facebook users, that announced installing Messenger by the bare minimum of permissions and nonetheless having logs collected. Most notably, the feature inspired Facebook to create so-called "shadow profiles" for contacts that haven't signed up for Facebook, a practice some have criticized as overly aggressive. "This specific feature allows people to opt into giving Facebook access to their call and text messaging logs in Facebook Lite and Messenger on Android devices.


Set up the new Android phone you got for Christmas

You'll alextremely need to plug your new Android phone in When you go out of setup. It's alextremely Intelligent to make a backup of your old phone before you begain your upgrade, just in case. If you're upgrading your phone and need to use your existing carrier and phone number, you'll need to take out the SIM card from your old phone and put it in the new one. Check the manual or website for your old phone to figure out where to find it, although it's usually around the battery. If you're new to Android, you can use your existing Gmail account, that going to tie your phone to your existing Google information.

Set up the new Android phone you got for Christmas

Chrome for Android adds 'sneak peek' feature for opening new tabs in overlay w/o leaving the page

referring to Opening a new tab from the current one is a pretty common method to browse the web, even on mobile devices. Now, Google is adding a new feature to Chrome for Android called Sneak Peek that opens those tabs in an overlay When keeping you on the current page. The best gifts for Android usersAs first noted by Android Police, Sneak Peek in Chrome for Android gives users the option to open up content in a new tab, but all without making them leave the current page to see that content. To get Sneak Peek working in Chrome, users first need to access the flag chrome://flags/#enable-ephemeral-tab and determine it to "Enabled." Once that's done and Chrome has restarted, long-pressing a link going to detect a new option in the menu for opening by Sneak Peek. The feature hasn't made its method to stable just yet, by it live in Chrome Canary and Chrome Dev.








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