The data slurp included Facebook app users' interactions with others who are not on Facebook – meaning people who never gave the Social Network™ permission for anything are probably profiled in its data troves anyway.
Originally shared by Rob Jongschaap
Fleeing Facebook app users realise what they agreed to in apps years ago - total slurpage • The Register
'...What McKay and others realised to their horror was that Facebook Messenger on Android uploaded far more than expected. Specifically: metadata for phone calls and text messages, even though they were sent with Android's default phone and SMS apps, not Facebook's Messenger apps....'
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/03/25/facebook_app_privacy/
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/03/25/facebook_app_privacy/
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