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Facebook Wants to Listen to Your Phone Calls and invade Privacy

Facebook Wants to Listen to Your Phone Calls !! 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 aud io at any time without their permission. As the screenshot above illustrates , users are made to accept an agreement that allows Facebook to “record audio with the microphone….at any time without your confirmation.” The Terms Of Sservice 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