Geez, how much more in bed with Obama and the NSA can Facebook get? My suggestion: If you have messenger on our phone delete it. Then re-download it and read the terms of agreement. This is sheer lunacy. Also for those who didn’t know this one, check out the video below. This news is actually about 5-7 years old. Notice what the government has made cell phone makers do now? Notice you can’t take the battery out?
Cellphone users who attempt to install the Facebook
Messenger app are asked to agree to terms of service that allow the social
networking giant to use the microphone on their device to record audio at any
time without their permission.
As the screenshot above illustrates (click for enlargement),
users are made to accept an agreement that allows Facebook to “record audio
with the microphone….at any time without your confirmation.”
The TOS also authorizes Facebook to take videos and pictures
using the phone’s camera at any time without permission, as well as directly
calling numbers, again without permission, that could incur charges.
But wait, there’s more! Facebook can also “read your phone’s
call log” and “read data about contacts stored on your phone, including the
frequency with which you’ve called, emailed or communicated in other ways with
specific individuals.”
Although most apps on Android and Apple devices include
similar terms to those pictured above, this is easily the most privacy-busting
set of mandates we’ve seen so far.
Since the vast majority of people will agree to these terms
without even reading them, cellphone users are agreeing to let Facebook monitor
them 24/7, green lighting the kind of open ended wiretap that would make even
the NSA jealous.
Other app companies are also requiring you to allow them to
approximate your location, send SMS messages from your phone that cost you
money, read your contacts, read your phone status and identity, get “full
network access” to your communications (in other words listen to your phone
calls), modify or delete the contents of your USB storage, and disable your
screen lock (the 4 digit code that password-protects your phone).
As we have previously highlighted, embedded microphones in
everything from Xbox Kinect consoles to high-tech street lights that can record
private conversations in real time represent the final nail in the coffin of
privacy as the ‘Internet of things’ becomes a part of our daily lives.
Source: World Truth Tv