by Steven Musil, CNET news.com
Facebook is being accused of snooping on its users’ text messages, but the social network says the accusations are inaccurate and misleading. The company is among a wide-ranging group of Web entities, including Flickr and YouTube, that are using smartphone apps to access text message data and other personal information, according to a Sunday Times report (behind a paywall). The newspaper said Facebook “admitted” to reading users’ text messages during a test of its own messaging service. The report also says information such as user location, contacts list, and browser history are often accessed and sometimes transmitted to third-party companies, including advertisers. Facebook representatives did not immediately respond to a CNET request for comment, but the company told the Business Insider that the Sunday Times report was “completely wrong.”
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57385429-83/facebook-denies-accessing-users-text-messages/
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