Quote Originally Posted by Ryan Mooney View Post
The plot thickens to a minor degree. There is now evidence emerging that facebook was also harvesting data off of peoples phones using their app. This included things like contact information, and sms and call records.
That was an opt-in on Android devices, so members using those devices clicked "yes" to allow access to the information and sync their address books. The language may not have been clear, but yes, it was essentially legal. The easy fix is to un-sync contacts which turns off the data gathering.

Facebook is also in process of rolling out more extensive control by a member over their personal data and folks will hopefully take advantage of that to assure that only information they want to be available is available.