Facebook has secretly gathered the contents of SMS, contacts up to phone call history data by Android smartphone users. A number of Facebook users have even spilled their frustration on Twitter related to this. The disclosure of this scandal actually stems from the disclosure of private data theft by a private institution in the UK named Cambridge Analytica. The research institute has been accused of breaking into the personal data of more than 50 million Facebook users.
This personal data theft scandal as telling you from TheVerge allows Cambridge Analytica to download all the data stored on the user's Facebook account to be watched. A Twitter user named Mat Johnson revealed that he saw all his phone call history data along with the SMS content he had previously done in his Facebook account.
Now for users who are curious about what personal data has been 'collected' by the world's social networking giants, they can follow simple steps as follows:
Please access the following link: http://facebook.com/settings
Click 'Download c copy of you Facebook data' or 'Download a copy of your Facebook Data'.
Confirm that you really want to get the data by pressing the 'start archive' or 'start my archive' button.
Next, Facebook will start archiving all of your data and sending it to your email address when you register your Facebook account first.
Open the link you received to the email and download the data.
Extract using 7ZIP or WinRAR.
Open 'html / index.htm'
Well once you do the seventh step, then you will see what data is on your Facebook account. The personal data collected user usually includes the same data that is on Facebook users coupled with contact info and messages. Well, in these two menus you can see the history of calls, contacts and the contents of any SMS on the Android smartphone that you use.
But you need to know, sassy action Facebook stores your personal data is only applicable to smartphone users who run the Android operating system. Meanwhile, you are using a device with the iOS platform is definitely safe from it. This is because Apple has never allowed the collection of data contacts and SMS on iPhone by third parties including Facebook is.