Facebook Wants To Read Your SMS, Confidential Info: Kaspersky
New Delhi: Leading social media company Facebook wants to read SMSes and other confidential information of people on the Android mobile phone platform, cyber security firm Kaspersky said on Monday.
“Over the last few days there has been a constant scrutiny over Facebook having access to your SMS. Buried within the latest update for Facebook’s Android app is a feature that is causing growing concern among some users,” Kaspersky said in a statement on Monday.
No immediate comments were received from Facebook.
Facebook is one of the companies that has been accused by U.S. Whistleblower Edward Snowden of sneaking in to private information to help National Security Agency of U.S. in spying at global level. The social media firm has denied that allegation.
The Facebook application at the time of installation on Android mobile phones seeks certain permissions and the updated version now asks users to allow it “Read your text messages (SMS or MMS)”.
The social media’s logic behind seeking access to SMS is that “if you add a phone number to your account, this allows us to confirm your phone number automatically by finding the confirmation code that we send via text message“.
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