Facebook kept logs of calls and messages on Android phones
Facebook kept logs of calls and messages on Android phones, and followed the rules to do it The creepy factor is high, but this is one of those things we must take a little bit of responsibility for. Facebook is in the news right now. Perhaps you’ve heard. The social network is currently under extreme scrutiny for the way it has been both gathering and handling user data, wearing away at what was already a frayed trust of the gigantic company. The latest surprise, coming from people downloading their cache of Facebook data, has been that many Android users have unknowingly been providing Facebook access to their call logs and SMS messages for years — and the company was holding onto it all. Though I’d be happy to be able to expose some unsavoury plot, the explanation here is pretty simple: Facebook was just taking advantage of Android’s relaxed permissions model, and we didn’t know any better. Google has been surfacing app permissions since the Andr...