<story><title>Facebook&apos;s seized files published by MPs</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-46456695</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fosco</author><text>holy smokes...&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;Michael LeBeau – ‘He guys, as you know all the growth team is planning on shipping a permissions update on Android at the end of this month. They are going to include the ‘read call log’ permission, which will trigger the Android permissions dialog on update, requiring users to accept the update. They will then provide an in app opt in NUX for a feature that lets you continuously upload your SMS and call log history to Facebook to be used for improving things like PYMK, coefficient calculation, feed ranking etc. This is a pretty high risk thing to do from a PR perspective but it appears that the growth team will charge ahead and do it.’&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;Yul Kwon - ‘The Growth team is now exploring a path where we only request Read Call Log permission, and hold off on requesting any other permissions for now. ‘Based on their initial testing, it seems this would allow us to upgrade users without subjecting them to an Android permissions dialog at all.&lt;p&gt;This is huge, doesn&amp;#x27;t this make google guilty as well?&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;‘It would still be a breaking change, so users would have to click to upgrade, but no permissions dialog screen.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: formatting</text></item><item><author>Trill-I-Am</author><text>Here is a direct link to the files themselves:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.parliament.uk&amp;#x2F;documents&amp;#x2F;commons-committees&amp;#x2F;culture-media-and-sport&amp;#x2F;Note-by-Chair-and-selected-documents-ordered-from-Six4Three.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.parliament.uk&amp;#x2F;documents&amp;#x2F;commons-committees&amp;#x2F;cultu...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arminiusreturns</author><text>Now remember that Facebook has made agreements with phone manufacturers to have fb installed by default &lt;i&gt;and made un-uninstallable&lt;/i&gt;, with all the default permissions to share the users data whether they ever log in and use the app or not!&lt;p&gt;Sidenote: I&amp;#x27;ve noticed via umatrix that Netflix on pc, during a show, is attempting to load fb js... Netflix wtf!</text></comment>
<story><title>Facebook&apos;s seized files published by MPs</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-46456695</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fosco</author><text>holy smokes...&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;Michael LeBeau – ‘He guys, as you know all the growth team is planning on shipping a permissions update on Android at the end of this month. They are going to include the ‘read call log’ permission, which will trigger the Android permissions dialog on update, requiring users to accept the update. They will then provide an in app opt in NUX for a feature that lets you continuously upload your SMS and call log history to Facebook to be used for improving things like PYMK, coefficient calculation, feed ranking etc. This is a pretty high risk thing to do from a PR perspective but it appears that the growth team will charge ahead and do it.’&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;Yul Kwon - ‘The Growth team is now exploring a path where we only request Read Call Log permission, and hold off on requesting any other permissions for now. ‘Based on their initial testing, it seems this would allow us to upgrade users without subjecting them to an Android permissions dialog at all.&lt;p&gt;This is huge, doesn&amp;#x27;t this make google guilty as well?&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;‘It would still be a breaking change, so users would have to click to upgrade, but no permissions dialog screen.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: formatting</text></item><item><author>Trill-I-Am</author><text>Here is a direct link to the files themselves:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.parliament.uk&amp;#x2F;documents&amp;#x2F;commons-committees&amp;#x2F;culture-media-and-sport&amp;#x2F;Note-by-Chair-and-selected-documents-ordered-from-Six4Three.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.parliament.uk&amp;#x2F;documents&amp;#x2F;commons-committees&amp;#x2F;cultu...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mikejb</author><text>&amp;gt; This is huge, doesn&amp;#x27;t this make google guilty as well?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not sure I follow. An app can request permissions, and the user can allow or deny them. I don&amp;#x27;t understand how this puts guilt on Google. Can you elaborate?</text></comment>