Facebook Is Changing the Way It Stores Call, Text History

Facebook issued a blog post today detailing the changes it has made to how it manages users' data. Among the new changes is a tweak to how Facebook collects and stores call and text history. Engadget reports: For those using Messenger or Facebook Lite on Android, an opt-in feature compiles users' call and text history, which the company says is used to help it surface the contacts you talk to most frequently. In its blog post today, Facebook said that it has reviewed the feature and can confirm that it doesn't actually collect the content of any messages. Additionally, going forward, it will delete logs older than a year and only the data required for the feature's functionality will be collected, meaning no extra data, such as call times, will be stored. The collection of such data became an issue last month, when software developer Dylan McKay discovered the logs after downloading a copy of his account data. Facebook initially said that it was an opt-in feature. It also said that the call and text history data were never sold. You can see how to turn off this feature here for Messenger and here for Facebook Lite.

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Re:How to verify that FB account actually deleted?

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

I am tired of having to "worry" about FaceBook and how it handles data.

Me, I'm tired of having to worry about how any of my data is mishandled by Facebook - or Google, or CloudFlare, or Apple, or Microsoft, or any other big data player for that matter - when I explicitely and quite deliberately refuse to use any their "services".

It requires real focus and total dedication to limit the amount of shit these companies know about me to an absolute minimum when I simply want to go on the internet - nevermind denying them the right to know anything at all, which is impossible. That's what's tiring in today's surveillance capitalist society.

It's becoming so problematic that I'm increasingly turning into poisoning the well instead of trying to dry it up - i.e. supply big data with as much bullshit information as possible, since they want data that bad...

Re:Yeah, sure.

[HornWumpus]

Cults often use private languages. Most people believe they aren't bad, so they use language to hide from what they're doing...'surface', 'expropriate' etc etc.