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by oofbey 1675 days ago
I think you should read more about Facebook. Try e.g. the Damien Collins email dump, and read about how their android app tricked people into letting it record all phone call and text message records, knowing full well users would hate it if they found out.

Clearly they produce good technology. But the company is morally bankrupt.

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The PDF of of the information I assume you're referring to is: https://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-committees/cultu...

Here is a quote from the summary, but I could not find where it was substantiated in the 250-page document:

> Facebook knew that the changes to its policies on the Android mobile phone system, which enabled the Facebook app to collect a record of calls and texts sent by the user would be controversial. To mitigate any bad PR, Facebook planned to make it as hard of possible for users to know that this was one of the underlying features of the upgrade of their app.