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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.
#DeleteChrome
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.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
The ads company will do the collecting and tracking now in real time. No messy keeping of data costs. "Privacy" is now a way to save on costs.
The data is still flowing to the ads and nothing is lost.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
Are you sure you have done a thorough enough job? Have you looked at any particular file hosted on Facebook? Do they all use *.facebook.com? If you have realized Facebook owns and uses other domains, are you sure you blocked them all?
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.