Zuckerberg hits users with the hard truth: You agreed to this

Re:Zuckerberg hits users with the hard truth: You agreed to ... by Splines on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @09:53AM (#16688340)

I don't want to be a FB apologist (I uninstalled fb/messenger because of all this), but the text of the prompt seems relatively clear:

> Continuously upload info about your contacts like phone numbers and nicknames, and your call and text history. This lets friends find each other on Facebook and helps us create a better experience for everyone.

https://fbnewsroomus.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/opt-in_scre...

Granted, those six words are tacked on the end of a sentence, and given the intrusiveness of the feature should probably have been called out in its own opt-in dialog with its own switch. But it's not like they asked for contact access and turned around and used it for something else.

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Re:Zuckerberg hits users with the hard truth: You agreed to ... by leereeves on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @10:09AM (#16688506)

That's from Facebook's response to the scandal, right?

Has that prompt always been there? A lot of people seem to be unaware that Facebook has been doing this, and I haven't seen anyone say they saw that prompt in 2015.

I searched Google for the text of that prompt, or any reference to Facebook accessing your SMS history, in 2014 to 2017, and didn't find anything.

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Re:Zuckerberg hits users with the hard truth: You agreed to ... by amaccuish on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @11:32AM (#16689472)

The earlier prompt never mentioned anything about sms and call logs, just uploading contacts.

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