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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.
If Zuckie says so, we should all believe him. Yep. He's totally trustworthy.
I mean, they had to do an honest-to-goodness review before they could determine that they weren't collecting the content of these phone and text conversations - which weren't part of Facebook at all, I might add.
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What I love is how they call what is essentially an opt-out feature opt-in.
No Facebook. I did not want to "opt in" to that at all.
I am tired of having to "worry" about FaceBook and how it handles data. Can someone here tell me how to ascertain whether an account and associated data no longer exist?
FB is of no use in this regard as they keep bugging fellas who "delete or deactivate" their accounts.
Not to mention, where in this explanation does it make sense that "sorting your contacts" requires a server?
Call and Text History: Call and text history is part of an opt-in feature for people using Messenger or Facebook Lite on Android. This means we can surface the people you most frequently connect with at the top of your contact list. We’ve reviewed this feature to confirm that Facebook does not collect the content of messages — and will delete all logs older than one year. In the future, the client will only upload to our servers the information needed to offer this feature — not broader data such as the time of calls.
Also, who uses "surface" in this way? What a wanker.
Trust is lost in seconds, and takes years to regain.
And then there's this... Facebook Says Data on Most of Its 2 Billion Users Vulnerable
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.
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Why is it storing this info at all?
"Here at Facebook we are very concerned with the amount of negative publicity we have received lately concerning our business and the impact it is having on our revenue generation scheme. Going forward, we will redouble our efforts to ensure that end users are no longer able to discern the amount of data that we collect on them routinely, as an ongoing operation, to ensure that our business model continues with as high a profitability as possible."
If you had a Facebook account you're an idiot. If you still have a Facebook account you're an even bigger idiot. If you let your family run Facebook accounts you're an idiot because although they don't know any better you do.
i will NEVER trust them with my data, i blocked all their domains with my /etc/hosts file so as far as my PC is concerned facebook does not even exist because i dont want them to access my PC either directly or though any websites with social networking links & features
Politics is Treachery, Religion is Brainwashing
If Facebook were serious, they would stop storing this data at all. Data not collected cannot be compromised.
Of course, that goes against their business plan. So, instead, they make a lot of noise about a couple of purely cosmetic changes, and go on selling all your data to anyone who wants it.
Cambridge Analytics? That wasn't an accident or an oversight. That was business as usual, Facebook making money. They are only annoyed that they got caught.
Enjoy life! This is not a dress rehearsal.
That is how you identify cults, by gleaning the alternate meaning of words that everyone uses but which the adherents "know" mean something completely different when used between members.
I object to power without constructive purpose. --Spock
Priests will change the way they sodomize altar boys
It may be worth it to keep Facebook around to stay in touch with more distant contacts easily and to be a part of how much of the world works these days with people organizing and planning things - but even so we know it collects insane amounts of data from every nook and cranny it can leach from. Maybe some of us can live with that while accessed from a desktop sitting in a static location, without mics or cameras hooked up for it to have access to.
But on your cell phone? Do that an you are basically surveilling yourself every moment of your day - as opposed to just while using desktop - to large corp that will sell and exploit that data as part of their business plan.
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