BREAKING! Facebook Harvested Your Detailed Call and SMS Logs For Years

[Bladewire]

Facebook Harvested Detailed Call and SMS Logs For Years | Fortune.com

This is exactly why I never installed the Facebook phone app I knew they were going to do this creepy kind of shit fucking evil
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Facebook for years collected detailed call logs from users’ Android smartphones, including the time of calls, the names and numbers of call recipients, and call duration, according to a new report. Facebook also collected text message metadata such as recipient and time sent.

The collection was noticed earlier this week by a user on Twitter who downloaded his own records from Facebook, and found call logs spanning 2016 and 2017. Ars Technica investigated and confirmed the prevalence of the call tracking, dating to at least 2015.

What may be most disturbing about the tracking is that Facebook arguably misrepresented what it was collecting. In a statement to Ars, a Facebook spokesperson referred to the data as part of the “widely used practice [of] uploading your phone contacts” to connect users to their real-life friends. Requesting access to phone contacts is indeed common in smartphone apps, but it seems highly unlikely users realized that permission also granted access to detailed phone records.

Facebook’s access was enabled in part by the Android operating system, which in older versions granted permission to access call logs along with contacts. That joint access was phased out by October 2017. According to Ars, Facebook’s permission requests have been made more explicit in recent versions of certain apps, detailing that call logs and SMS records are included.

The findings in many ways mirror the explosive controversy around the unauthorized collection of Facebook data by the elections firm Cambridge Analytica. In both cases, users may have known they were granting some data access to Facebook and its advertising clients, but the true extent of that sharing was obscured.

In the nine days since the Cambridge Analytica story broke, Facebook stock has plummeted by nearly 14%, dragging other tech stocks with it. Not surprisingly, there has been a spike in interest among users in deleting Facebook.

[onwebcam]

And you think Cambridge is the problem.

[tammix]

biggest brother indeed

[2MuchMark]

I don't get it. If you had the Facebook app installed on your phone, it could see data about your calls and text messages even if you were using the app to make those calls and messages?

[Rochard]

So.... Facebook recorded every conversation you ever had? Just like... Your phone? If I go back and text someone I haven't texted in five years, the old messages are still there. On my phone. Always have been.

Duh.

I'm stunned anyone doesn't understand the very basics of how this works.

[Bladewire]

I don't get it. If you had the Facebook app installed on your phone, it could see data about your calls and text messages even if you were using the app to make those calls and messages?

Facebook was collecting text msg data, phone call logs etc. from events outside the app.

I remember back then Facebook saying they weren't collecting detailed data they just needed access to contacts to connect you with friends. They fucking lied, as I suspected then they were, hence why I never installed there lame app

[2MuchMark]

This is really... surprising!

If you're on facebook you should download your own info and read it. It's scary how much FB knows about you, and scarier that they share it. Login to your account, click the down-arrow on the far right, then "Settings" and then "Download a copy of your Facebook Data".

[DBS.US]

Just wait till all the real secret info about your homes Smart Electric Meter comes out.

[Bladewire]

This is really... surprising!

If you're on facebook you should download your own info and read it. It's scary how much FB knows about you, and scarier that they share it. Login to your account, click the down-arrow on the far right, then "Settings" and then "Download a copy of your Facebook Data".

Did you see call and SMS message logs in your data? What pieces of data were you the most shocked to find out they had on you?

[2MuchMark]

Did you see call and SMS message logs in your data?

No it doesn't seem to have any. (I had FB Messenger installed on my iphone). Where do I see the SMS data?

What pieces of data were you the most shocked to find out they had on you?

It has the phone number of every single one of my contacts. Holy shit!! Fuck you Facebook, this isn't your fucking info.

It has everything in my timeline going back to 2007. Geezuz.

I am not sure what else "surprised me", but it has info that would paint an incomplete picture of me. For example under movies, it has only when I have "liked" which is only about 4 movies. In "Other" it has things which I have never heard of or don't remember.

But then again, if I was a 3rd party, I could totally paint the person represented by this data as a liberal. "HuffPo, Factcheck, New York times, Liz Warren... wow!".

No text or sms messages though... Maybe only Android phones shared this info with FB?

[onwebcam]

I would download it but I'm on my GFs laptop right now and not really ready to give her everything I give facebook.

[Acepimp]

You guys know it activates your phone's microphone and shows you ads based on what you talk about, right?

[beerptrol]

You guys know it activates your phone's microphone and shows you ads based on what you talk about, right?

You must get a lot of gay russian porn ads

[Acepimp]

You must get a lot of gay russian porn ads

Yeah, but then Facebook shut down your pages

[Bladewire]

No it doesn't seem to have any. (I had FB Messenger installed on my iphone). Where do I see the SMS data?



It has the phone number of every single one of my contacts. Holy shit!! Fuck you Facebook, this isn't your fucking info.

It has everything in my timeline going back to 2007. Geezuz.

I am not sure what else "surprised me", but it has info that would paint an incomplete picture of me. For example under movies, it has only when I have "liked" which is only about 4 movies. In "Other" it has things which I have never heard of or don't remember.

But then again, if I was a 3rd party, I could totally paint the person represented by this data as a liberal. "HuffPo, Factcheck, New York times, Liz Warren... wow!".

No text or sms messages though... Maybe only Android phones shared this info with FB?

All the way back to 2007 wow! That's a lot of data

Yes Facebook only stole all that data via the Android app platform not iOS.

[candyflip]

When you use shitty Android phones this is what happens.

[adultchatpay]

That's why i like Friendster better before.

[Bladewire]

When you use shitty Android phones this is what happens.

I adore this man CandyFlip he is so misunderstood

[ladida]

If this surprises you, you're in for a world of surprise if it ever gets out what google, ms etc have on you.
Can't believe you think none of this data i stored )) What's next, people will start to wonder that earth is not flat ?

[Paul Markham]

If this surprises you, you're in for a world of surprise if it ever gets out what google, ms etc have on you.
Can't believe you think none of this data i stored )) What's next, people will start to wonder that earth is not flat ?

Agreed. How do you think these companies giving you so much free stuff, get to be worth so much?

The problem in the future isn't big government, it's big corporations.

[CurrentlySober]

I can honestly say that facebook have surprisingly little information on me at all...

I downloaded my archive and aside from a few treasured pics of particualy good morning poos I've shared it doesn't even know my real name or where I live... At least not in the downloaded archive anyway...

[NALEM]

Just wait till all the real secret info about your homes Smart Electric Meter comes out.

This ^ ^

We do not use the smart electric meters at any properties we rent or own. I had one electric company in Europe refuse us continued service if we didn't allow them to install the new meters rolling out in the neighborhood. We had to resort to promising the executives that we would roll out a negative campaign naming them personally if they insisted. They reluctantly backed down.

[JFK]

And you think Cambridge is the problem.

[Bladewire]

If this surprises you, you're in for a world of surprise if it ever gets out what google, ms etc have on you.
Can't believe you think none of this data i stored )) What's next, people will start to wonder that earth is not flat ?

^^^ Truth!

The surprising part is the public is now aware which means things are going to change or go more underground

[CaptainHowdy]

[Matt-ADX]

Guess you can Cuck the Zuck

[nico-t]

So.... Facebook recorded every conversation you ever had? Just like... Your phone? If I go back and text someone I haven't texted in five years, the old messages are still there. On my phone. Always have been.

Duh.

I'm stunned anyone doesn't understand the very basics of how this works.

because that's exactly the same