Facebook Collected Years Of Calling and SMS History: Here's How You Can Remove It
Facebook has collected the calling and texting history of users for years. Although people gave permission for this themselves, they are sometimes shocked that the social network knows so much about them.
This weekend, developer Dylan McKay downloaded his Facebook archive. In it you will find all the information that Facebook has about you. You can download the archive here by pressing 'download a copy of your Facebook data'.
In that archive, McKay saw who he had called and smiled with. Facebook also had access to his entire contact list, including telephone numbers of people he had already removed from his phone for a while.
Shocked??
Through McKay's tweets , Facebook users were encouraged to download their archive. They reacted shocked: Facebook has collected a huge amount of data about them, including their calling and texting history.
What appears to be: the users have given permission to collect this data. This happened during the installation of the Android app from Facebook's chat service Messenger. In it Facebook requests access to your contact book and your call and SMS history, as you can see in the screenshot on the right.
"Remove"
Facebook says it introduced the function a few years ago. Synchronizing this data should ensure that you 'find people with whom you want to connect more easily', writes the social network in a blog. "We never sell this data, and we do not collect the content of your text messages or phone calls."
You can disable the synchronization option in this way , so that all your contacts and associated phone information will no longer be synchronized with Facebook. Facebook promises that your call and SMS history will be erased from the platform. You can also delete any uploaded to Facebook by phone here pressing the button 'delete all'.
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Somehow it has my entire call history with my partner's mum https://t.co/CIRUguf4vD
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That is valuable information. Thank you!
Thanks @kunani
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Thank you for summing up and giving further details on this very important topic! It is kind of ironic that FB originates from one of the countries in the world that values individual freedom very high. You might think that individuals raised in such an environment would naturally refrain from developing and implementing such data collection possibilities.
Totally agreed with you @moeostar But people who are addicted to this network don't give shit about their personal data.
I the matter of Facebook has been more serious and it's best if the matter is been adhered to on time
Wow facebook seems to be getting creepier by the minute. Thanks for the heads up.
Deleted all!
Haha true i don't understand why people waste their valuable time on such things.
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Great content, it's always had a positive social media look to it where lots of people have shared their private information and granted access to our phones... and look whats happened now... we should follow the steps and delete it all, thanks for the information.
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