<story><title>Facebook tracks your private calls</title><url>https://twitter.com/mat_johnson/status/977325434030428160</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>torpfactory</author><text>It should be clear to everyone now that Facebook is engaged in building a surveillance system which tracks every one of its users throughout their daily lives. Though others will disagree, this kind of behavior, especially done so without informing the user in full candor, is morally wrong.&lt;p&gt;As I&amp;#x27;ve advocated in other commentary on this site: Engineers at Facebook have a moral obligation either reform from the inside or quit. This kind of surveillance apparatus should not be built, by either government or private entities.</text></comment>
<story><title>Facebook tracks your private calls</title><url>https://twitter.com/mat_johnson/status/977325434030428160</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Shywim</author><text>Some replies say that the user should take a second look at what permissions they give, but in the case of Android apps the permission to use the Account Manager (used to register a service account like Facebook, Google, Twitter or any other things that need to synchronize in the background) is displayed as a &amp;quot;Contacts&amp;quot; permission to the user.&lt;p&gt;So some apps like Facebook might synchronize or make other uses of contacts with their service accounts, but many other service don&amp;#x27;t do anything with contacts and doesn&amp;#x27;t EVEN request the actual contacts permission but their permission request is still displayed as &amp;quot;Contacts&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;How can the user be able to do responsible choices in giving apps permissions when the permissions layer of the OS make no sense?</text></comment>