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It seems like it should be an obvious given that just installing an FB app on your phone shouldn't hand FB a record of all your phone calls and text messages. Which is what appears to have happened on Android and nowhere else. The sensible question really is 'wtf is wrong with Android' not 'who and how is somehow managing to do this better'.

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> It seems like it should be an obvious given that just installing an FB app on your phone shouldn't hand FB a record of all your phone calls and text messages.

Has it been established anywhere that this was not the case (i.e. that just installing the app uploaded all calls and text messages)?


The claim is that it had permission to do that right after installation, due to the way Android permissions worked at the time.




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