Re:Facebook walks back statements on data collection and its...
by LargeWu on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @04:49PM
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It's probably not facebook. Your wife's friend may have certain apps installed that have access to her texts, both incoming and outgoing, and they are likely phoning home her data and selling phone numbers to scammers. I've seen this where I've been texting my wife and then soon after get text adverts based on certain words we were using.
Re:Facebook walks back statements on data collection and its...
by tyfon on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @05:27PM
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That's certainly a possibility, but is it possible for other (malware) apps to scan private facebook posts?
This was not a sms or anything like that, but a regular private facebook post made from her computer.
Just yesterday my wife deleted her facebook account and left a private message about how to contact her to some of her friends. She has never entered her phone number into the details and she has an unlisted/secret phone number due to working in the equivalent of the norwegian IRS.
A few hours after making this private post she started getting phone calls from england from "Microsoft support" regarding her the infection on her windows computer (she is using linux btw). She has never ever gotten spam calls on that number before. It might be coincidence and it is anecdotal but it seems very far fetched as this number is about 10 years old.
For the record I would personally not trust any company to put a device that records activities like that into my home. Not from facebook, google, apple or amazon. It's time to cut the online crap and start having things locally again.