After the scandals .. Facebook undertakes not to collect the content of your SMS messages

Facebook said: "We have reviewed this feature to ensure that Facebook does not collect content messages, and will delete all records older than one year."

In late March, we published an urgent warning that Facebook has been collecting your call records and SMS messages for years. "It's normal for applications to reach the phonebook when you upload contacts to social applications."


We pointed out that since the launch of the social networking site Facebook 14 years ago, it has not faced black days like now. The Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal is still being discussed around the world, forcing the company to offer what we might call concessions.

As part of a series of actions, Facebook announced today that it has updated its plans to restrict access to data through its services. The updates included the API software development interface, the API Groups, API Pages, the Social Sign-In Mechanism, and the Instagram service API.

The company announced that it will update its search, restore and application control policies. As of April 9, Facebook will offer users a link on the top of the "latest news" page to see what applications they use on the network, Applications. Users will be able to remove applications more easily than before.

What concerns us in today's Facebook announcement is the issue of collecting call records and text messages, after the company noted that the call log and messages are part of an optional feature for people who use Messenger and Facebook Lite on Android.

But what will happen to this feature? "We reviewed this feature to ensure that Facebook does not collect the content of the messages and will delete all records older than one year," Facebook explained.

"In the future, the customer will only provide our servers with the information needed to deliver this feature - not the broader data such as call time."

These changes coincide with Facebook's acknowledgment that data leaked in the Cambridge Analytica case is almost twice the number previously announced.

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