by Ben Popken
Facebook confirmed Sunday that it has been keeping texting and call
logs for millions of people who use Android phones to access Facebook
Messenger, adding to a growing backlash over how the company handles the
user data that drives its record-setting profits.
Ever since news broke that data firm Cambridge Analytica had been abusing the Facebook platform to download unauthorized data on over 50 million users, users have been downloading their own Facebook data to see just how much the social network knows about them.
One
of them was developer Dylan McKay, who posted last week that his file
appeared to show a call log of every single call he'd made for the past
few years. The data included who the call was to or from, the date, time
and duration. The calls were not made using Facebook or one of its
apps, they were just the calls he'd made on his phone.
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Source: NBC News
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