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Re:Lawmakers fed up with Zuckerberg by ikeboy on Thursday December 20, 2018 @10:49AM (#18725875)
Plenty of people installed Facebook apps that required permission to read all text messages
Re:Lawmakers fed up with Zuckerberg by zyx321 on Thursday December 20, 2018 @12:13PM (#18726779)
Yes, but that doesn't mean that they consent to Facebook using that data. Whatsapp for example asks "read SMS" permission to verify your phone number. It also requires access to your contact list or else everyone's name will be shown as a phone number.

The average user seems to assume that the information is used to provide the service and nothing more. The last person I asked if they were worried about how much information FB has about them replied something among the lines of "Yes, but it's only things that I deliberately chose to share." (paraphrased)