Norton: Android app skips consent, gives Facebook servers user phone numbers

[CJ]

Yesterday Norton updated its post about its findings in Facebook's official Android app, wherein Facebook confirmed that its app has sent millions of Android users' phone numbers to be stored on Facebook's servers when the app is launched.

The app's action of launch/send does not require users to log in, so user consent is impossible, and the app's phone number-to-Facebook-server mechanism occurs whether or not the person launching the app has a Facebook account.

Facebook told Norton that all phone numbers obtained in this manner through its app have been deleted from Facebook's servers.

Symantec's Norton published updated findings that show Facebook has been uploading phone numbers to its servers via its Android app in Norton Mobile Insight Discovers Facebook Privacy Leak:

Read on:

http://www.zdnet.com/norton-android-app-skips-consent-gives-facebook-servers-user-phone-numbers-7000017475/

 

[msk19994]

Kill them all Kill Them All
Note: Everyone knows that every app you use and click continue they take all the data from the phone .

 

[SJshah]

Facebook told Norton that all phone numbers obtained in this manner through its app have been deleted from Facebook's servers.

They forgot to mention that prior to data being deleted, it was copied over to NSA servers.
Technically, they're telling the truth I guess.

 

[cvrle77]

Facebook told Norton that all phone numbers obtained in this manner through its app have been deleted from Facebook's servers.

Yes, sure, and there's Santa Claus too.
Like, oh, sorry, our coder made spelling mistake in the code, so, application mysteriously sent your phone number to us, but before we start to spam the shit out of you, sell your phone number to all possible corporations, take billions, and send your numbr to NSA for tapping, we assure you that we erased your phone number right after all that happened. From one server. We will not tell you that we have hundreds of thousands of them.

 

[mRAza]

Facebook told Norton that all phone numbers obtained in this manner through its app have been deleted from Facebook's servers.

getting user phone numbers without permissions is not crime? How funny excuse.