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[EVO 4G General] UCChemE05:
Oooh the ironing...

Directly from the market...

Your personal information

read contact data

Allows an application to read all of the contact (address) data stored on your device. Malicious applications can use this to send your data to other people.
[EVO 4G General] DirtyShroomz:
This is where it gets scary

Who gave the permission? Certainly not me.
[EVO 4G General] sitlet:
Yes, as I stated on the first page, and may other people have said, ALL of my phone contacts are now on facebook, not just the ones with friends on facebook. All of my work and home numbers transferred over. On a side note, I have not updated the Facebook app on my phone in about 5 months. My friend tried the new update about 3 months ago when they changed the layout, and I never updated because I hated the new look. So this means that its not just a new version of the app thats doing this.

And again, to all who think this isn't a big deal, the only reason we are complaining is because we were NEVER TOLD that facebook would be taking ALL of our contacts and syncing them. Facebook for HTC Sense, and the Facebook app itself, only say they will sync information to your phonebook of friends you already have on facebook, not ALL contacts. And nowhere does it say the information is synced TO facebook, everything says that Facebook only syncs information of your friends TO your phone, not back to them.

Does anyone have a link of a way to contact facebook about this? Obviously, they are the WORST at trying to get in contact with. Two years ago, my school changed our email addresses when they upgraded servers. I tried to change my email address to the new one, but it said it was already taken. It took TWO YEARS to finally get it resolved. Since they don't have a phone number to call, you have to search and beg them to help you by email, and 90% of the time I just got a canned response, and when I tried to reply to that saying that doesnt make any sense, the emails were sent to a dead address.

The only way I could find in the help section to contact them was a form that lets you contact them for ads that are offensive. This obviously doesnt help at all. This is one thing I hate about facebook, they have NO customer support for people with issues like this, that just want a response to find out where they say they can take all of our contact information.
[EVO 4G General] Rem3Dy:
Yep. And it suggested to add them as friends lol.
[EVO 4G General] Rem3Dy:
A class action lawsuit will be the only way
[EVO 4G General] HipKat:
I read it in the 70's... so?

You have your **** sync'd all over the net. you leave electronic footprints everywhere you go. if ya don't like FB, or you have militant issue against FB, don't ****ing use it! Simple!
[EVO 4G General] phistyle:
If you guys are that concerned about privacy then you shouldn't of signed up for a social networking site aka Facebook in the first place.
[EVO 4G General] HipKat:
Yeah, because FB is SO concerned about who you, out of the billion or so users, they wanna know who YOU talk to on your cell phone.
[EVO 4G General] sitlet:
No, this is a little different. They did not ask, and we did not give them permission, to take ALL of our phone numbers. This isn't a privacy issue, its a legal issue.
[EVO 4G General] HipKat:
They didn't "take" anything. YOU add FB to your phone and/or your number to your FB account. YOU sync your contacts. And only YOU can see that page on your FB account anyhow.... Who cares if it's on FB's servers.

You think your PM's on here aren't on XDA's servers?? You think no one who has server admin can't go look at them?

BTW, you CAN disable this so your contacts aren't (Conveniently) on your FB page.

"Facebook Phonebook displays contacts you have imported from your phone, as well as your Facebook friends.

If you would like to remove your mobile contacts from Facebook, you need to disable the feature on your mobile phone and visit this page."

Good grief!
[EVO 4G General] HipKat:
Here's the one thing that I WILL give you. I can see every phone number for every contact on my FB list, including the one porn star that's from Peoria, Aspen Reign.

Let the bidding begin!
[EVO 4G General] ckoadiyn:
While a person may use fb and use the app as others have said THEY DIDN'T SAY HEY WE ARE GOING TO PUT ALL YOUR NUMBERS ON OUR WEBSITE FACEBOOK ACCT OR NOT!!! I don't know why the hell that is so damn hard for some of you to understand and for those saying shouldn't have signed up for fb ur right never would have If g+ would have been around. And I know they have my damn info cause I have chosen to give it to them just like my contacts.

Btw said this before **** convenience it is going to be our damn downfall the fact we want spoon fed everything all the damn time right now can't do a little work? Thousands of years work has always had to be done NOW people are lazy as ****.
[EVO 4G General] sitlet:
Because by syncing facebook contacts, it states nowhere that facebook will take my contacts. It only says that facebook will sync my friends with my phonebook on my phone.
[EVO 4G General] HipKat:
Like I said before. All my contacts are on my Google contacts page. I did NOT give them permission to do that on a page that only I can see!!

RAGE!!!!!!
[EVO 4G General] ckoadiyn:
All ur contacts in ur phone book yes u did it says right there when you add a number If you want it on google or phone ur a dumbass
[EVO 4G General] phistyle:
I swear some of you guys have rocks for brains...do you understand what syncing is? when you sync your phone or contacts with facebook, you are exchanging information between the two entity. Why wouldn't facebook have your contacts' information? Should I go ape **** crazy since I synced my facebook contacts that I have their birth date sent to my phone and is synced to my calendar? Like OMG I can have information from facebook sent to my phone but I can't have my information sent to MY facebook. I synced my facebook to my phone solely for this reason... TO SYNC MY INFORMATION between the two.
[EVO 4G General] yelserp87:
Does the "Permissions Denied" app show facebook for anyone? I just installed it (and rebooted) and it doesn't show facebook. Running stock 2.2 rooted.
[EVO 4G General] DirtyShroomz:
It's not supposed to store non facebook information on your website online account, this is where the foul play comes in. You allowed to sync your facebook contacts to your phone not the other way around.
[EVO 4G General] HipKat:
By definition, syncing is sharing of information. It's a 2-way street. So, what's the problem?
[EVO 4G General] Royvin:
I agree and mine is definitely doing that because last time I checked my contact "Dad" and his cell phone number are listed and he doesn't have FB. God I hope Anonymous takes them down hard for a day or 2. :mad:
[EVO 4G General] mattykinsx:
Are you serious with us right now?

Jesus tap dancing Christ.

We get it, Facebook can do no wrong, there's nothing wrong with them wanting access to our messaging or our contacts or anything else.

They aren't malevolent.

When they start recording our calls it's not because they're spying they're just "seeing who we're going to add next and providing that person to us when we log on so we don't have to waste our time searching" :rolleyes:

Seriously.
[EVO 4G General] phistyle:
it's not the fact that facebook can't do any wrong.. it's the fact that you chose to sync your phone to facebook and of course information will be exchanged between the two. Like seriously... what did you guys think was happening when you guys synced your phone to facebook? People that worried about privacy in the first place shouldn't of even synced their phone to facebook or not join any social networking sites at all. Should of just stuck to instant messaging, texting, and emails.
[EVO 4G General] mattykinsx:
Excuse me.

You're playing word definition games and also declaring that "if you care about privacy don't be on social networking sites" and were suppose to take you guys seriously?

Just because its social networking doesn't give those companies the right to do whatever they want.
[EVO 4G General] phistyle:
oh lord get off your high horse...it's no different with any other stuff you sync your account with on the internet. DON'T SYNC YOUR PHONE WITH FACEBOOK if you guys have a problem with it. How hard is that to understand? Nobody is forcing you to do it. You act like you are paying facebook to use their services and they are holding your information hostage.
[EVO 4G General] mattykinsx:
Oh yeah sorry I forgot to include the insults that come with the posts.

Definitely makes your point more valid.

What of this?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=16553917

Let me guess, dirty, a forum member that is pretty well respected around here, is just making this up right?

Because Facebook would never lie to us or do anything malevolent :rolleyes:
[EVO 4G General] phistyle:
you seem to bear a grudge against facebook..how about this.. just delete your facebook and move on?

problem solved!
[EVO 4G General] mattykinsx:
In other words you have nothing to say as a response.

Thanks for stopping by.
[EVO 4G General] phistyle:
nothing to say about what? it's like I'm responding to a brick wall
[EVO 4G General] samuel346:
Wow, operation "iron fist" is such a bluff. The flaming, name calling, and trolling around here has actually become worse since they declared it in effect.
[EVO 4G General] MultiDev:
Facebook asks if you like to sync your contacts. It did for me. I said no.

The only contacts I have on there is contacts I have sync'ed using the Sense Facebook plugin.
[EVO 4G General] thegregbradley:
You guys are completely dense if you think that Facebook won't divulge your information to the government or any high bidding third party.

Also, this world is nothing like 1984. 1984 was a forced society where the government watched your every move. This world is more like Brave New World, since you all have opped in to entertaining yourselves to death. Read a book.
[EVO 4G General] mattykinsx:
You're correct but they both have the same theme.

Even though I read both, I went with 1984 because it was a high school required reading in our school and I've heard of that being the case in other schools too.
[EVO 4G General] uniquenameevo:
Not solved. If anyone else on fb knows him and has his phone number, they probably gave it to fb without knowing they did.
[EVO 4G General] phistyle:
it's a freaking NUMBER! it's not like it's their address or social security number.
[EVO 4G General] mattykinsx:
Just because it doesn't bother you that someone has your number doesn't mean that it doesn't bother others.

I know I'm very protective of my number.

Moreover, just because it doesn't say they downloaded the address doesn't mean they didn't.

When you download a contact you get all the information, not just part of it.

So effectively they have every person in your contacts First name [Last name too if you have it listed], phone number, [address if you provide it], maybe email and even place of business too.

That's quite a lot of data they could have that they have no business having.
[EVO 4G General] uniquenameevo:
So, what's your number? You seem as worked up on the "big deal, screw it" side as the other side (I am somewhere in the middle myself). With that, post up, share it. I'll put your phone number as my fb status :D
[EVO 4G General] detusueno:
my guess is that mattykinsx is currently reading 1984 in his 9th grade literature class.
[EVO 4G General] DirtyShroomz:
I think what you guys are failing to understand is people like me never synced nor gave permission for them to store this information. If you still think they're not invading my privacy then it's obvious you don't care about your own and are a sheep. Take a look at the pictures I posted earlier. Sync off and it still did it without my permission.
[EVO 4G General] phistyle:
lol I'm just saying.. this is the internet age...if people wanted to find your information they can do so easily if they want just with a simple google search.
[EVO 4G General] detusueno:
nobody but you can see that list.
[EVO 4G General] DirtyShroomz:
And anyone facebook sells it to or any hacker that may hack my account.
[EVO 4G General] mattykinsx:
I think the truth here Dirty, as unfortunate as the truth may be, is certain people are here to ignore any data/facts/rational arguments and to flame/name call others for their own enjoyment.

If I'm wrong then half the posts wouldn't have even been made and your post that showed exactly what you're saying here wouldn't have been completely ignored.

So in other words you don't want random people/sites to know your number?

I mean, you want to justify this as "okay" so let's know it bud. Come on.
[EVO 4G General] detusueno:
a hacker can hack Sprint and take your SS# among a whole bunch of other stuff! better hide under the sheets!
[EVO 4G General] Rem3Dy:
Its one thing to be concerned about things you put on a social networking site, its another when the social networking takes information you didn't want on said site.
[EVO 4G General] detusueno:
oh and they or any other company you subscribe to and share personal information can too! it's a good thing that their terms of service are freely available to those who are literate and rational enough to understand that they legally can't. facebook uncluded.
[EVO 4G General] phistyle:
lol seriously? where are you guys logic coming from? You act like facebook is plastering your phone number and contacts on your facebook wall or putting it on twitter or ebay for auction. Hackers? Please they can hack into other accounts online that have your information that you typed in on the internet at one point or another. So why don't you just simply stop using the internet since search engine or sites caches pretty much everything you search or type.
[EVO 4G General] DirtyShroomz:
What's your social and phone number since you don't mind random people taking your information that you didn't provide them with. I promise I'll be good with it.
[EVO 4G General] mattykinsx:
Quoted for truth.

But this post will be ignored because it's not really flame-able.
[EVO 4G General] detusueno:
here's 3 questions for you:

1. did you sign up for facebook?

2. did you install the FB Android app?

3. did you also voluntarily enable contact syncing?
[EVO 4G General] mattykinsx:
1. Yes he did

2. It came preinstalled on his phone like most phones.

3. IF you read a damned thing instead of just flaming/trolling you would know the answer is NO.
[EVO 4G General] DirtyShroomz:
But you mean you trust a company that took something without your permission more than me who asked you up front?

And because you don't read

I DONT SYNC MY FACEBOOK

Just in case you missed my pictures and the first three times said that
[EVO 4G General] detusueno:
he's full of ****. full of it and i know it. at one point he enable it because thats the ONLY way to sync contacts to your phonebook automatically. he could have done it last year or whenever. how many times did he flash a new rom and re-install facebook? did he NEVER enable syncing?

a trillion bucks says NO because its the only way to automatically sync to the online facebook phonebook.
[EVO 4G General] phistyle:
it's preinstalled but it doesn't mean he has to log on to the facebook app on his phone..
[EVO 4G General] mattykinsx:
You really, seriously, don't read a damned thing do you?

You need to be reported for trolling because this is just ridiculous.

Do you see this photo?

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b14/DirtyShroomz69/snap20110811_123324.png

It shows that the last time it synced was 7/31 which is probably when he logged in and the app assumed it could do whatever it wanted and then he had to uncheck it.

If you educated yourself you would know that Facebook claims this is an "absolutely new feature" that just started this week.

Not two weeks ago.
[EVO 4G General] detusueno:
no, it's been around for over a year shows how much you know which is not a damn thing.

i would know since i knew about this since last year!
[EVO 4G General] Blameme:
So how do other people see these
[EVO 4G General] DirtyShroomz:
Go look at my pictures it says my last sync was july 31. Problem is I haven't flashed a new rom for two months nor changed my sync options. You're an idiot if you think I don't know when I last synced. It was almost two years ago when I had the hero but my contacts has my latest employer number from last month..... I'm not retarded I know what I do sync and allow to be taken from me if not I wouldn't be posting this.
[EVO 4G General] detusueno:
they don't, it's absolutely private and only viewable by you.
[EVO 4G General] mattykinsx:
It would help if you read anything. You'd know that the downloading of all of your non-facebook contacts is an absolutely brand new thing that started yesterday.

Quit trolling.

And Facebook and whomever they sell it to.
[EVO 4G General] detusueno:
when was the first time that you installed facebook? over the last 1-2 two years have you ever installed facebook and enabled contact syncing?
[EVO 4G General] detusueno:
no it's not.

http://thepracticeofcode.com/post/398444370/privacy-concerns-with-facebooks-contact-sync

you're the most worthless poster in xda. you talk out of your ass 100% of the time.
[EVO 4G General] DirtyShroomz:
Never since my hero days... Why? Outdated phone numbers and multiple duplicate numbers. When I dial someone their old and new number come up, don't know which to dial so i never did it again when I accidentally deleted all my contacts trying to fix it.
[EVO 4G General] mattykinsx:
We're not talking about the contact syncing function, bud.

We're talking about the posting of non-facebook contacts in your facebook profile.

That is absolutely new.

http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/10/the-facebook-scare-that-wasnt/

Amazing that someone that is doing nothing but trolling in this thread, that has been shown about 5 times already he hasn't read a damned thing in this thread is going to make a comment about another person's posting.

You must be lying because Facebook never would.
[EVO 4G General] phistyle:
did facebook or the facebook app ever state anything about not syncing your non-facebook contacts? If you look at the screenshot on the second page all it says is Sync Contacts...nowhere does it separate itself saying only Facebook contacts..
[EVO 4G General] detusueno:
it always synced non facebook contacts.

mattykinsx is blind.

this feature has been in Android since i think eclair.
[EVO 4G General] mattykinsx:
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=16563467&postcount=131

Read don't troll.

That should be the name of this "operation" by XDA.

Forget "Iron Fist" it should be the "Read don't troll movement"

Reading would obviously cure 99% of the problem we have on XDA.
[EVO 4G General] detusueno:
you don't read. facebook has been syncing non0facebook friends since contact syncing first appeared on the android app. that was a long time ago.
[EVO 4G General] phistyle:
and apparently you don't read... why even log into your facebook app on your phone at all if you're not going to sync with it and your information. How about not logging in on your facebook account on your phone?
[EVO 4G General] mattykinsx:
To use the app? :rolleyes:
[EVO 4G General] phistyle:
lol? your responses get dumber by the minute...no logic or reasoning at all. Just keep the shutter shades on please.
[EVO 4G General] mattykinsx:
How are you gonna make the claim that my response is stupid?

You're one of those that think if you make a claim enough it will become true aren't you?

You can't use the app if you don't log into the app.

Just because you use the app doesn't mean you want your contacts sync.

Is it really this hard to understand!?!?!?!??
[EVO 4G General] detusueno:
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=16564107&postcount=20

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=10495243&postcount=13

this gets better and better.
[EVO 4G General] mattykinsx:
You dug up an old thread where he was giving advice to someone and use that as evidence of what exactly?

He said "I have" meaning in the past.

He clearly stated he did sync his contacts when he had the Hero in this thread.

Furthermore he showed how Facebook synced his contacts 7/31/11 and yet he doesn't have it checked [if he had that box checked it would update them every 24 hours or more]

I doubt he went back in time and changed that setting just to prove something to you.

Operation Iron fist indeed.

It's not "newer members" that are the problem on XDA, it's the older ones that think they can act like this is 4chan.
[EVO 4G General] phistyle:
making claims? I'm stating facts while you make up theories..
[EVO 4G General] detusueno:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2010/oct/06/facebook-privacy-phone-numbers-upload
[EVO 4G General] detusueno:
yeah, keep pretending that dirtyshrooms is not lying through his teeth.
[EVO 4G General] samuel346:
I agree with what you're saying but you might as well save your fingers. These guys are clearly trolling the topic and are even going as far as to ignore logic to continue.
[EVO 4G General] mattykinsx:
Talks only of the iPhone.

Moreover...

That's a too lie, never received any warning and never would have known unless I saw this thread.

Like I said, Dirty went back in time and unchecked that box on 7/31/11 11 full days ago just to prepare for this debate. :rolleyes:
[EVO 4G General] phistyle:
Ignoring logic? it's the other way around...while we're here stating facts and showing concrete proof, they are just sitting here lying and making up theories.
[EVO 4G General] samuel346:
I never bite onto troll bait but I'll reply here.

You just posted a question asking why people would use the app if they didn't want their contacts uploaded to Facebook.

Obvious troll is obvious.
[EVO 4G General] detusueno:
i've seen my phone contacts in my facebook phonebook as early as june of last year. but:

Dirtyshrooms is a huge liar. he has a ton of posts about flashing roms onto his hero in 2010. how is that two years ago? i don't believe a damn thing he says.
[EVO 4G General] AA27:
See, this is an updated article from October 2010, if you read it carefully, originally Facebook was matching the information from the phone to a Facebook account and was only related to Facebook users. You could actually update that info from your phone and then submit it using sync. But now this new feature adds averything, whoever is on Facebook or not.
[EVO 4G General] DirtyShroomz:
Yes... I have nothing better to do....
[EVO 4G General] mattykinsx:
OMFG

So when he said two years ago he meant 1.5 years ago!??!?! The total liar!:rolleyes:

...this whole trolling bull**** would have never happened.

But that's apart of being a troll.

Not reading.
[EVO 4G General] DirtyShroomz:
Sorry a year or so ago... Jeez either way you're ignoring my picture which shows sync off and data still synced. How much more proof is needed?
[EVO 4G General] phistyle:
man this gets better by the minute... let me get straight to the point. At first we were debating/arguing about "Why was non-facebook contacts appearing on facebook" when you sync. Answer: Nowhere does facebook or facebook app. states that they didn't. In the app. it clearly says SYNC CONTACTS, not sync non-facebook contacts or sync facebook contacts only...it simply states SYNC CONTACTS. It's not my fault stupid people interprete it differently and THINKS it only syncs your facebook contacts.

Matty failing to realize this then keeps going on about dirtyshrooms screenshot or his word of mouth and acknowledging it as FACT. This just turns into a HE SAYS, SHE SAYS so that goes out the window.
[EVO 4G General] DirtyShroomz:
And I've had a Nexus for a few months now what does my hero have to do with facebook showing contacts I added last month?
[EVO 4G General] DirtyShroomz:
Either way im out of this conversation you guys keep blindly giving your information away to whoever you like. I I have no reason to lie, im a very well respected members of these forums who had helped countless with their sprint account. Search that.