Monday, March 26, 2018

Facebook knows a lot about you, even your call history and SMS data...

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f this information isn’t creepy enough wait till you find out that Facebook is also collecting call history and SMS data from Android users.

A couple of days ago, a big story broke out stating that Facebook exposed data of 50 million Facebook users to a researcher who worked at Cambridge Analytica, which worked for the Trump campaign.

And now Several Twitter users are reporting finding months or even years of call history and SMS data in their downloadable Facebook data file. People freaked out and outraged about the Cambridge Analytica prompted them to download all the data that Facebook stores on their account, and millions deleting their Facebook accounts.

“Oh wow my deleted Facebook Zip file contains info on every single phone cellphone call and text I made for about a year,” says ‏Twitter user Mat Johnson. Another, Dylan McKay, says “somehow it has my entire call history with my partner’s mum.” Others have found a similar pattern where it appears close contacts, like family members, are the only ones tracked in Facebook’s call records. Full story...

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