Vanity Fair's Maya Kosodd points out the consequences of tapping or clicking through the little popups when you sign up for Facebook: these are contracts that let Facebook do everything that you're now complaining about. In its current iteration, Facebook’s Messenger application requests that those who download it give it permission to access incoming and outgoing call and text logs.
Zuckerberg To Facebook Users: You Agreed To This
Rob Beschizza, Boing Boing
Tue, 03/27/2018 - 6:42am
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