{"id":353987,"date":"2018-03-26T21:18:55","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T20:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-facebook-collected-phone-call-text-message-data-report\/"},"modified":"2018-03-26T21:18:55","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T20:18:55","slug":"prison-planet-com-facebook-collected-phone-call-text-message-data-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-facebook-collected-phone-call-text-message-data-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb Facebook collected phone call, text message data: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/technology\/380247-facebook-collected-phone-call-text-message-data-report\"><strong>The Hill<\/strong><\/a><br \/>March 26, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>Facebook collected users\u2019 phone call and text message data for two years, according to a report from <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2018\/03\/facebook-scraped-call-text-message-data-for-years-from-android-phones\/?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosam&amp;stream=top-stories\">Ars Technica.\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The news outlet cites\u00a0various Facebook users who discovered the social media platform\u00a0scraped\u00a0 metadata from their\u00a0Android smartphones.<\/p>\n<p>The data reported included the names of contacts, phone numbers, call lengths, and SMS and MMS metadata.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Downloaded my facebook data as a ZIP file<\/p>\n<p>Somehow it has my entire call history with my partner&#8217;s mum <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CIRUguf4vD\">pic.twitter.com\/CIRUguf4vD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dylan McKay (@dylanmckaynz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dylanmckaynz\/status\/976368845635035138?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 21, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Facebook responded in a <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.fb.com\/news\/2018\/03\/fact-check-your-call-and-sms-history\/\">blog post<\/a> on Sunday, saying it has not been logging users\u2019 call and SMS history without\u00a0permission.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCall and text history logging is part of an opt-in feature for people using Messenger or Facebook Lite on Android. This helps you find and stay connected with the people you care about and provides you with a better experience across Facebook,\u201d the\u00a0company said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/technology\/380247-facebook-collected-phone-call-text-message-data-report\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      <!-- END CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#333; font-size:11px;\">This article was posted: Monday, March 26, 2018  at  7:44 am<\/p>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/><!-- share and follow --><br \/>\n      <!-- end of share and follow --><\/p>\n<div class=\"print_sub\">\n<h3 class=\"sub_titles\">&#13;<br \/>\n        \t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/facebook-collected-phone-call-text-message-data-report.html\/print\/\" title=\"Print\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"WP-PrintIcon\" src=\"https:\/\/hw.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-print\/images\/printer_famfamfam.gif\" alt=\"Print\" title=\"Print\" style=\"border: 0px;\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nPrint this page.<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<p><!--\n      \n\n<div class=\"nextpage\">\n              <\/div>\n\n \n -->    <\/p>\n<p><!--\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gm2pZEeYN0E?list=UUvsye7V9psc-APX6wV1twLg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n--><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/facebook-collected-phone-call-text-message-data-report.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The HillMarch 26, 2018 Facebook collected users\u2019 phone call and text message data for two years, according to a report from Ars Technica.\u00a0 The news outlet cites\u00a0various Facebook users who discovered the social media platform\u00a0scraped\u00a0 metadata from their\u00a0Android smartphones. The data reported included the names of contacts, phone numbers, call lengths, and SMS and MMS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-353987","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}