Samsung phone owners are upset because they can't delete the Facebook app

[AndreStmaur]

@RickMycroft

@doctorow

Facebook claims that if you don’t login to the app or run it, it won’t spy on you.

That’d be a change from the version in my old phone. Connect it to the debug monitor in Android Studio, capture the events from the phone, leave it overnight and then filter for Facebook events, and you can clearly see an unused app with no account contacting the mothership every night.

I never checked to see what was transferred, but in light of later leaks, I’d wager my call logs.

That is what was found in that other thread I posted a few days ago:

Report on Facebook and Android

The following report was published last week at the chaos computer congress in Leipzig, Germany and makes its way in the general press. https://privacyinternational.org/report/2647/how-apps-android-share-data-facebook-report The video from the congress is also worth looking at, also for the questions asked at the end: https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9941-how_facebook_tracks_you_on_android The short summary is that Facebook gets private data from a vast number of apps installed on Android phones,…