Waching daily Apr 3 2018

Does Facebook knows everything about us?

Our likes? dislikes? friends? family?

Here Tech Talkies brings you the latest revelations of Facebook.

Do you know if Facebook application is installed on your android device, there are chances

that the company had been collecting all our contacts, SMS , and call history data until

late last year Facebook is collecting all the data from the

android users from many years, which was earlier reported in media, but it did not gain much attention.

After the revelations that 50 million users data was misused by Cambridge Analytica, Facebook

has just lost over $60 billion in market value that's more than Tesla's entire market capitalisation

and almost three times that of Snapchat.

Facebook controversies that Not only Cambridge Analytica's quiz app, there are other thousands

of other apps that have been encountered on your Facebook timeline such as "how you

look in your 80s?" "which celebrity you look like?" "who'll be your Valentine this year?" that

work on the same model.

All facebook apps offer access using their facebook account and ask you to grant the

app's developer a range of information from your Facebook profile, like your name, location,

email, and friends list.

A Facebook spokesperson explained, since almost all social networking sites have been designed

to make it easier for users to connect with their friends and family members, Facebook

also uploads its users contacts to offer same.

According to the reports of ARS, the older versions of Android are a lot less strict,

the facebook app took away contact permission at the time of installation that allowed the

company access to call and message data automatically.

However, developers were able to bypass this change, and facebook continued accessing call

and SMS data until Google deprecated version 4.0 of the Android API in October last year.

You can still check what data the social network had collected from you so far, by following

the steps facebook Settings -> Download a copy

of your facebook data -> Start my Archive.

facebook users on Apple devices are on the safer side, as iOS has never allowed silent

access to call data.

This is Contacts and call history data that has not been uploaded to Facebook that is

being misused, Then how secured are the photos that the individuals keep posting everyday

on FB?

The shares of Facebook are continuously falling.

We will have to wait and watch the future of facebook.

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