New Facebook App Update Allows Them To Read Your Texts

The newest Facebook app update allows them to read your text messages - you might want to rethink that update, people.

It looks like they rolled it out to Android first but I wouldn't get comfy iPhone users, I'm betting you are next...

Directly from Facebook's app permissions page - see for yourself!
Read your text messages (SMS or MMS) - If you add a phone number to your account, this allows us to confirm your phone number automatically by finding the confirmation code that we send via text message.

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Tuesday, January 28, 2014

New Facebook App Update Allows Them To Read Your Texts

The newest Facebook app update allows them to read your text messages - you might want to rethink that update, people.

It looks like they rolled it out to Android first but I wouldn't get comfy iPhone users, I'm betting you are next...

Directly from Facebook's app permissions page - see for yourself!
Read your text messages (SMS or MMS) - If you add a phone number to your account, this allows us to confirm your phone number automatically by finding the confirmation code that we send via text message.

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1 Comments:

At January 31, 2014 at 2:51 PM , Blogger Unknown said...

This is messed up. Access to contacts, emails, etc. We keep on giving up our privacy one keystroke at a time, and I don't see it ending. The price we pay for being social. :-(

 

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