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My suggestion: If you have messenger on your phone delete it. Then re-download it and read the terms of agreement. This is sheer lunacy. Also for those who didn't know this one, check out this video. This news is actually about 5-7 years old. Notice what the government has made cell phone makers do now? Notice you can't take the battery out?


As the screenshot below illustrates (click to enlarge), users are made to accept an agreement that allows Facebook to “record audio with the microphone… at any time without your confirmation.”

The TOS also authorizes Facebook to take videos and pictures using the phone's camera at any time without permission, as well as directly calling numbers, again without permission, that could incur charges.

But wait, there's more! Facebook can also “read your phone's call log” and “read data about contacts stored on your phone, including the frequency with which you've called, emailed or communicated in other ways with specific individuals.”

Although most apps on Android and Apple devices include similar terms to those pictured above, this is easily the most privacy-busting set of mandates we've seen so far.




