Facebook: You gave us permission to log your calls and texts
29/03/2018
As the Cambridge Analytica scandal gave birth to the #DeleteFacebook movement, some users who chose to get rid of their accounts and downloaded all their Facebook data first found that Facebook had complete logs of all their cellular calls and SMS text messages. This understandably led to a freakout in the press and...
As the Cambridge Analytica scandal
birth to the #DeleteFacebook movement, some
users who chose to get rid of
their accounts and downloaded all
their Facebook data first found that Facebook had complete logs of all
their cellular
and SMS text messages. This understandably led to a freakout in the press and on social …
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us permission to log your
and texts”
As the Cambridge Analytica scandal
birth to the #DeleteFacebook movement, some
users who chose to get rid of
their accounts and downloaded all
their Facebook data first found that Facebook had complete logs of all
their cellular
and SMS text messages. This understandably led to a freakout in the press and on social media: Is Facebook just a synonym for Big Brother? But now Facebook has published a blog post “fact-checking” the revelation, confirming that for some
users Facebook was logging
their and texts, but those
users opted in to letting Facebook do that:Read Full Story