[leereeves]

I would argue that consenting to allow Facebook to access your contacts is not consenting to allow Facebook to log your phone calls and SMS messages.

Of course, some of the blame for that belongs with Google, for failing to accurately describe the permissions being given to apps.

[carlio]

Well as Adam Hills said, nobody is going to read 87000 words: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxT9cQ08wPs

[Splines]

I don't want to be a FB apologist (I uninstalled fb/messenger because of all this), but the text of the prompt seems relatively clear:

> Continuously upload info about your contacts like phone numbers and nicknames, and your call and text history. This lets friends find each other on Facebook and helps us create a better experience for everyone.

https://fbnewsroomus.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/opt-in_scre...

Granted, those six words are tacked on the end of a sentence, and given the intrusiveness of the feature should probably have been called out in its own opt-in dialog with its own switch. But it's not like they asked for contact access and turned around and used it for something else.

[leereeves]

That's from Facebook's response to the scandal, right?

Has that prompt always been there? A lot of people seem to be unaware that Facebook has been doing this, and I haven't seen anyone say they saw that prompt in 2015.

I searched Google for the text of that prompt, or any reference to Facebook accessing your SMS history, in 2014 to 2017, and didn't find anything.

[amaccuish]

The earlier prompt never mentioned anything about sms and call logs, just uploading contacts.

[cryptoz]

People without smartphones and without Facebook who made phone calls to other people also got their calls logged. This was done 100% without their consent.