Social network sites such as Youtube, Flickr, Tumblr, Twitter and Facebook have one thing in common - they all have smartphone apps where users can instantly and easily accesses their account. But, there was an accusation pointed out to Facebook in which they were accused of invading user's privacy by accessing their text messages without consent. Facebook soon responds to this heinous accusation as false, inaccurate and misleading.
Sunday Times claimed that Facebook had admitted in reading user's text messages during a test of its messaging service and are sometimes causes users personal information such as user's location , contact list and browser history to have been invaded and may be transmitted and shared to a third party. However, Facebook representative denies any claim that the company had been committing such unethical practice. He further continued that Sunday Times were wrong on the terminology, and wrong on the suggestion that it has been implemented.
Accessing Facebook account from smartphone - convenience or controversial?
Smartphone users have now raised their concern on whether they still do retain their privacy in their life, especially when it was finally announced that Path - a popular iOS and an Android application - was fount out to be collecting user contact information without any consent. Twitter also admitted that it still retained data on its servers for 18 months after users selected the "Find Friend" feature on its smartphone app.
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