Facebook has registered calls and sms of smartphones

Perhaps Facebook would need a pilgrimage to Lourdes looking for a miracle.

Only a divine intervention could stop the avalanche of trouble that is investing Mark Zuckerberg and his social network after the Cambridge Analytica affair.

The #DeleteFacebook phenomenon continues, which also involved Teson and SpaceX's Elon Musk and has pushed many to eliminate their profile from the platform. Before carrying out this operation, some users have downloaded a copy of their data, using the option "Download a copy of your Facebook data" to get an archive of all the activities carried out on the social and that is how another problem has emerged.

Among the profile updates, shared posts, photos and other published content, lists of phone calls made using a smartphone are listed, including names, phone numbers, start time and duration of the conversation. Same for text messages. In short, Facebook has collected for years phone calls and text messages of Android devices, the registration does not affect iOS users, those of iPhone and iPad.

How? Through Facebook Lite or Messenger, the Facebook application to exchange messages and make phone calls and video calls on the Internet.

Only in recent years on Android have been introduced new options for customizing privacy management and from 2016 users who download the application must explicitly consent for it to manage text messages and telephone contacts.

Facebook did not explain what the call history or information about sent text messages would do to it, but specified:

“We never sell this data, and this feature does not collect the content of your text messages or calls”.

What else did not Zuckerberg & co. tell us?