(CNN) -- Facebook and online privacy: For several years now, it's been hard to talk about one without talking about the other. And Facebook's latest offering, called Home, is no exception. Facebook Home is an Android app that acts like a skin, updating the standard Android mobile operating system with a more modern, Facebooky decor. The Android home screen is replaced with a graphic version of the Facebook news feed that automatically flips through the latest happenings from your friends. The phone's home page has additional Facebook features for posting to the site and communicating with friends. Facebook Home is a more convenient way for heavy Facebook users to use the social network's services. It is also a more powerful tool for Facebook to potentially collect information about a person, and it gives the company more ways and places to serve up ads.
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Facebook Home could give the company access to more of your personal data
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Things like a person's location could be automatically collected in the background
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Facebook could also see who you call and text, and tell what apps you use and how often
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The company says Home will not actively track users' GPS locations
On a regular phone, Facebook's data collecting powers are limited to what you do inside the official @placeholder mobile app or on the site in a browser.