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Re:Facebook tracks all calls and messages on Android by joethebro on Thursday March 22, 2018 @05:41PM (#16652970)
Android 6.0 was the first version to implement permission control. Looks like this guy was running 5.1, so we at least know how Facebook got access to that info.

Doesn't justify it though.

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Re:Facebook tracks all calls and messages on Android by andor on Thursday March 22, 2018 @05:57PM (#16653086)
Android always had permissions:

https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/permissi... (see "introduced in")

Many apps request the phone permission to change their behavior on incoming calls, or during calls. For example, they would stop playing audio.

Access to text messages is sometimes requested to automate text message-based one time pad flows for the user.

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Re:Facebook tracks all calls and messages on Android by derimagia on Thursday March 22, 2018 @07:26PM (#16653679)
By permission control they mean: https://developer.android.com/training/permissions/requestin...
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