You Might Have an Invisible Facebook Account Even if You Never Signed Up
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#2When you install the Facebook app on your phone it requires permission to read your contacts, call log, location, accounts, and application data.
Is this true?
Re: You Might Have an Invisible Facebook Account Even if You Never Signed Up
#3When you install the Facebook app on your phone it requires permission to read your contacts, call log, location, accounts, and application data. Is this true?
Good thing deleting the pre-installed Facebook application (if it's ever been used at all it was inadvertently) off of my Android phone is quick and easy, and doesn't require root access!
EDIT: This is why we need sarcasm tags. No, I have not actually been able to remove my Facebook application.
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#4When you install the Facebook app on your phone it requires permission to read your contacts, call log, location, accounts, and application data. Is this true?
yes, the facebook android app requires about 20 other permissions
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#5I actually got a peek at Facebook's behavior maybe 5 years ago when I signed up to beta-test a video game. They had used the Facebook login API for their beta forums without marking it on their site, so signing up for the game signed me up for Facebook.
Suddenly all the Facebook ads everywhere knew my name. Three weeks and about 40 emails to "update my Facebook profile" that I reported to Gmail as phishing later, I received the dubious honor of being banned from Facebook without ever using it.
I threw all their domains into loopback in my hostfile at home and haven't seen their site or ads on that machine since, but if I log into LinkedIn in my work browser it starts all over again, so I've figured for a while there's probably also an account for everyone who has LinkedIn.
Re: You Might Have an Invisible Facebook Account Even if You Never Signed Up
#6When you install the Facebook app on your phone it requires permission to read your contacts, call log, location, accounts, and application data. Is this true?
Good thing deleting the pre-installed Facebook application (if it's ever been used at all it was inadvertently) off of my Android phone is quick and easy, and doesn't require root access! EDIT: This is why we need sarcasm tags. No, I have not actually been able to remove my Facebook application.
How? Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc S, ICS, locked to my carrier, unrootable. I've been wanting to get rid of it ever since the phone started running out of space all the time, app info gives no option to remove it. Is this a case of my manufacturer/carrier are more annoying than yours, or am I really missing something?
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#7I think this might be a good example of how to communicate software architecture to non-technical people. It was informative on that level. And by the end, we saw a full-blown process diagram, with even a loop, of Facebook waiting to create a shadow profile.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Good thing deleting the pre-installed Facebook application (if it's ever been used at all it was inadvertently) off of my Android phone is quick and easy, and doesn't require root access! EDIT: This is why we need sarcasm tags. No, I have not actually been able to remove my Facebook application.
How? Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc S, ICS, locked to my carrier, unrootable. I've been wanting to get rid of it ever since the phone started running out of space all the time, app info gives no option to remove it. Is this a case of my manufacturer/carrier are more annoying than yours, or am I really missing something?
I was being sarcastic. I'll probably never rid myself of the damn thing.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
How? Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc S, ICS, locked to my carrier, unrootable. I've been wanting to get rid of it ever since the phone started running out of space all the time, app info gives no option to remove it. Is this a case of my manufacturer/carrier are more annoying than yours, or am I really missing something?
I was being sarcastic. I'll probably never rid myself of the damn thing.
Dammit, it's really easy on my rooted Touchpad, but this thing's horrible for it. It'd be fine if it had storage space, but nope.
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#10When you install the Facebook app on your phone it requires permission to read your contacts, call log, location, accounts, and application data. Is this true?
First thing to do on an Android is to go under settings/apps/All and disable the privacy parasites such as the facebook apps(4) and google+.