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Is there any recourse short of "don't use the app" that regular users have against this sort of thing? Is there no meaningful way to push back against Facebook for demanding this permission?
You can use my Facebook client, which definitely doesn't read your text messages, emails and calendar.
Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.flipster&h...
Access to all your texts is scary, but what about "Add or modify calendar events and send emails to guests without owner's knowledge ...". I feel dirty just reading that - I'm so glad I've broken my Facebook habit. Facebook's value proposition is going downhill fast. All but the dumbest users are now very careful about what they allow FB to know, if they stay at all. I suggest that their hallowed social graph contain…
And record audio and video? Are they insane? Who the fuck would agree to this?
Is there any recourse short of "don't use the app" that regular users have against this sort of thing? Is there no meaningful way to push back against Facebook for demanding this permission?
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If you have a Samsung Android phone, there's a Permissions Manager that allows you to firewall what apps can and can't do. Same as Cyanogenmod without having to root your phone.
No there isn't.
Like others have said, on Android you can use App Ops, and if you're on 4.4.2, App Ops X ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.colortiger... disclaimer: I developed it). It still sucks that you're on an "open" platform but you still have to root/jailbreak your phone to keep your privacy.
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The app can push notifications to your phone, which is nice for regular users, and it can merge with contacts to fill in blank pictures and provide more information. It's not essential, but some of the integration is nice.
If I every get Facebook notifications on my mobile phone you are authorized to shot me in the head...
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If I every get Facebook notifications on my mobile phone you are authorized to shot me in the head...
Some of my friends prefer FB message to SMS for some reason or another, and use it accordingly, so push is nice for that purpose.
In that situation, I cannot send or receive SMS messages, but FB, etc., work just fine.
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> Google Hangouts is the SMS app What do you mean by that? It asked me if I want it to handle my sms, I said no. It asked me again when I updated to 4.4, I said no again. I can (and will) keep saying no...
They removed the default messenger and combined it with hangouts so they can have a ubiquitous chat service like imessage on iOS.