| Does FB require similar permissions on iOS? Also, the permissions they ask for seem like FB is angling to figure out a way to play a bigger role in your life and not just restricted to advertising such as sending out a text or placing calls to most frequently dialed numbers when they figure out that you've been in an accident. But is seems more likely that the US govt. to do any of the following if they make new laws that are an iterated version of the FISA, etc. laws that give them unrestricted access without any need for disclosure: > Someone is lost, kidnapped, in an accident, law enforcement can figure out ways to subpoena this information. > Send fake texts or calls on your behalf and then use that as grounds to detain / question / imprison you. > Data mine text information to figure out if a revolution is happening in a dissident country and perpetuate this by sending texts to a wider network (similar to starting a local twitter clone in Cuba). If this is a friendly country, you can warn your allies and have these people held as political prisoners in countries such as Saudi Arabia, etc. > Lots of other scary scenarios. |