Facebook is the best, why bother ask for your phone number if you already told them all your life.
Facebook Android app sends phone number to Facebook servers without consent
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#12We reached out to Facebook who investigated the issue and will provide a fix in their next Facebook for Android release. They stated they did not use or process the phone numbers and have deleted them from their servers. What utter garbage. They're really going to claim it was an accident?
Facebook never said it was an accident.
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#13Facebook grabs or publishes data without users consent. Does that really surprise anyone anymore?
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#14That's annoying. But an app that's more intrusive in my mind is the Flickr app which sends your Geo location back to Flickr every single damn time you exit any camera on your Android phone. Even if you haven't launched Flickr in weeks/months. It's done this for as long as I've been monitoring the apps on my phone (a good year now). I started using LBE to selectively block security requests by apps last Summer after b…
The SkyDrive app on Windows Phone does it too, but because I use that app I just turn the location service off until I need maps. PayPal, for instance, wants access to contacts (why?!?) so I stick with the web site. Each platform has issues like this. We're so used to just feeding the beast that app developers are ok with unreasonable requirements.
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#15"They "trust me". Dumb fucks." -Zuck
Any insight to be gained from this quote (little to none) has long since ended. At this point its just pointless circlejerking/karmawhoring to post it.
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#16That must make it easier for the NSA to link your phone number to your Facebook account.
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#17You don't need Facebook. Kill your profile.
It appears that Facebook may have recently leaked information related to their so-called dark profiles, too; from folks without FB accounts.
http://threatpost.com/facebook-underplays-data-exposure-from...
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#18This is something that has been going on for a couple of years you know
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#19You know what the super not cool part is? Tons of Android phones come pre-packaged with a Facebook app that you can't delete unless you root your phone.
Don't you agree when buying the phone? Just curious
I supposed I could have googled it to find out, but I've certainly never had a carrier tell me in advance what apps would be on my phone. Perhaps it's buried in the fine print that I agreed to without reading, but honestly I doubt it.
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