Facebook denies it collects call and SMS data from phones without permission
Ok, well this is just great. So Facebook has all my contacts from their aquisition of WhatsApp and even though I&#x27;ve never used any of their Apps or had an account with them, I&#x27;m pretty sure everyone I typically communicate with has the App and did not opt-out of this collection. So they get data on me for free that the police would need a court order to get. This kind of data retention has been highly controversial in Europe and is currently illegal for carriers to do in some countries, even though the security services obviously love it (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Data_retention" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Data_retention</a>), it is one of the few things I&#x27;ve actively politically fought against.<p>I <i>really</i> hope they will eventually crater like all the other social networks before them and I should have a way of asking them to delete all data they have on me including meta data from sms&#x2F;phone calls they might have collected.