Facebook will confirm that users collected their smartphone call history and SMS history, and surveys on information management methods also begin



Facebook has been talking about collecting call log records and text messages sent and received by users on smartphones has been talked about in the blog posted a new fact that there was that fact. At the same time, it is also emphasized that the collection is not "done without user's permission".

Facebook Has Been Collecting Android Users' Cell Phone Data For Years | Time
http://time.com/5215274/facebook-messenger-android-call-text-message-data/

Zuckerberg Hits Users with the Hard Truth: You Agreed to This | Vanity Fair
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/03/zuckerberg-hits-users-with-the-hard-truth-you-agreed-to-this

This problem was talked about on March 21, 2018. On the Facebook platform, it is possible to download the data about the users held by the Facebook side at once, but you can see contents, but when Dylan McKay who lives in New Zealand actually downloaded the data, It was said that the information of the phone call record which had not intended to be authenticated by himself was saved. Mr. McKay has tweeted the screen with the record displayed along with a comment "Facebook seems to get all the call history with my partner's mother in some way."


You can grasp this one item by looking at the following article.

As for topics that Facebook collects text messages and call logs on Android terminals - GIGAZINE


Facebook published a blog entry on this matter on March 25, 2018 (during Japan time in Japan time) of American time.

Fact Check: Your Call and SMS History | Facebook Newsroom
https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/03/fact-check-your-call-and-sms-history/

The blog export begins with the content that "You've probably heard the news that Facebook collects the history of call logs and text messages without authenticating himself, it is not a fact." . Among them, Facebook gets the operation history of the "Messenger" application for Android and "Facebook Lite" application in advance to allow the user to acquire the sending / receiving history of the call history and the text message in advanceOpt-inIt stressed that it is based on, and emphasizes that it is not fraudulent contrary to the user's wishes.

For that purpose it is "to find people who are related and to keep connected, to provide a better experience on Facebook", and if the user does not want to provide information, FacebookSetting pageAnd Facebook LiteManage from setting menuWhat you can do is explained.

Also, if you delete the contacts that have already been uploaded, you can follow the procedure on the following page.

How do I delete contacts I uploaded to Facebook? | Facebook Help Center
https://www.facebook.com/help/147699975301738

By the way, when I checked the data of the photo posted on Facebook from the smartphone, the location information and the IP address which I shot were saved. Depending on the photo, the date and time of shooting and the camera name may be saved, so it seems to be said that you should know that such information is being sent to Facebook when posting.


In addition to this case, Facebook is standing at the brunt of criticism with the problem that user information of 50 million people was leaked to British political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica (Cambridge Analytika), and Mark Zucker Berg CEO acknowledged that Facebook made a mistake and to the leading newspapers in the U.S. and the U.K.Posted a full advertisement and apologizeddoing.

Recognize that Facebook's Zuckerburg CEO who has been compromised by 50 million user data made a mistake - GIGAZINE


The problem surrounding Cambridge Analytica has received much attention and progress has been made to the situation where the Federal Trade Commission of the United States is investigating the way of information management.

Face book information management method, Federal Trade Commission launches survey 1 photo International news: AFPBB News
http://www.afpbb.com/articles/-/3168837

In general, the FTC will withhold comments on the survey, but this time it was confirmed whether Facebook had problems with the handling of personal information and whether the agreement in 2011 established as a countermeasure after the previous survey violated On the other hand, I came to an exceptional move to accept that we are implementing "closed investigation".

The stock price of フ ェ イ ス ブ ッ ク has fallen 2.3% on trading on Friday afternoon after FTC announcement. Although the closing price picked up 0.42% as compared with the previous day, it has declined by about 14% last week due to this problem and the market capitalization is also down about 90 billion dollars (about 9.5 trillion yen).

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