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- A Facebook user was startled to find that the social network had been keeping records of his phone calls and texts. A report from Ars Technica corroborated his findings.
- In response, Facebook says that it’s an opt-in feature on Messenger for Android, as well as the low-data Facebook Lite — and that it’s about making the social network better.
- However, there’s reason to believe that the main Facebook app could have been quietly collecting this data too, until Google made some changes to Android in October 2017.
Over the weekend, one Dylan McKay downloaded the archive of all his Facebook data — and found that the social network had been keeping extensive records of the calls and texts he had made from his Android phone.
A report from Ars Technica corroborated McKay’s findings not long after: under certain circumstances, Facebook’s Android apps will keep logs showing the names of the people you called and texted, how long the conversation lasted, and the other party’s phone number. See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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