Facebook scraped call, text message data for years from Android phones

Re:Facebook scraped call, text message data for years from A... by shados on Sunday March 25, 2018 @12:20AM (#16670738)

The first time I installed the Facebook app and saw the huge wall of permission requests (back before they had on demand permission requests and they all had to be up front), I noped out of that crap.

Never installed the facebook app on any of my phones (In the odd event I REALLY need to check a cat picture on facebook, I use the browser version). Glad I went that route.

Now though I got a Samsung phone that has the facebook app preinstalled, but I never opened it (and all the other preinstalled apps DONT have the permissions on by default...so I hope it's true of the FB app too)

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Re:Facebook scraped call, text message data for years from A... by virgilp on Sunday March 25, 2018 @01:44AM (#16670939)

You can at least disable it (which I always do)

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Re:Facebook scraped call, text message data for years from A... by DrScump on Sunday March 25, 2018 @01:54AM (#16670971)

I hope the current controversy will inspire Samsung to take Facebook out of the mandatory bloatware set for all models.

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Re:Facebook scraped call, text message data for years from A... by grzm on Sunday March 25, 2018 @02:03AM (#16670991)

Anyone have information on the financial arrangement (if any) between Samsung and Facebook to include the Facebook app in the bundle?

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