The company notes that users can stop continuously uploading contacts and delete all their previously uploaded contacts by turning off the continuous uploading setting in the Messenger app. Permanently deleting a Facebook account will also result in contacts no longer being uploaded and all previously uploaded contacts being deleted.
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March 23, Ben Wigham bmdwigham I had a similar issue with mine on Android. March 25, In a statement, a Facebook spokesperson explained why contacts were uploaded. What are the Cambridge Analytica files? Alexander Nix blames 'global liberal media' for Cambridge Analytica collapse — as it happened.
India to investigate alleged Cambridge Analytica data breach. Inquiry to determine if data of Indian voters and Facebook users was compromised. And in recent versions of the Messenger application for Android and Facebook Lite devices, a more explicit request is made to users for access to call logs and SMS logs on Android and Facebook Lite devices.
But even if users didn't give that permission to Messenger, they may have given it inadvertently for years through Facebook's mobile apps—because of the way Android has handled permissions for accessing call logs in the past. For Facebook's instructions on turning off continuous contact uploading, go here. If you granted permission to read contacts during Facebook's installation on Android a few versions ago—specifically before Android 4.
The permission structure was changed in the Android API in version But until the "Marshmallow" version of Android, even with split permissions, all permissions could still be presented all at once, without users getting the option to decline them individually. So Facebook and other applications could continue to gain access to call and SMS data with a single request by specifying an earlier Android SDK version.
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Starting with Marshmallow, users could toggle these permissions separately themselves. But as many as half of Android users worldwide remain on older versions of the operating system because of carrier restrictions on updates or other issues. Apple iOS has never allowed access to call log data by third-party apps, overt or silently, so this sort of data acquisition was never possible. Facebook provides a way for users to purge collected contact data from their accounts, but it's not clear if this deletes just contacts or if it also purges call and SMS metadata.
After purging my contact data, my contacts and calls were still in the archive I downloaded the next day—likely because the archive was not regenerated for my new request. The cached archive was generated once and not updated on the second request. However, two days after a request to delete all contact data, the contacts were still listed by the contact management tool. As always, if you're really concerned about privacy, you should not share address book and call-log data with any mobile application.
And you may want to examine the rest of what can be found in the downloadable Facebook archive, as it includes all the advertisers that Facebook has shared your contact information with, among other things. Facebook responded to reports that it collected phone and SMS data without users' knowledge in a "fact check" blog post on Sunday.
Originally Posted by bassmig. I am in the UK and have an unbranded international s3.
This is something that does my head in too. There isn't a fix as far as I am aware.
Maybe check your data archive to see if Facebook’s algorithms know who you called.
But I would like to know how to sort it. Maybe it is ,as someone has said in this post, carrier specific. The back button is what's resetting it. Hit the home button after you set it and it should work. Jessicalt1 Lover of all things Andi.
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This issue drives me crazy on mine. I can set that b times and it always defaults back.
Company says it never sells the data nor does it see the content of the messages or calls
Why in the hell do I want a log of my text messages?! The S4 running stock 4. But as others state, it keeps resetting itself to display ALL logs. I don't want all, I just want calls to display. Log Converter does it's job well, filters SMS out. It takes about 8mb of memory, though.