The London Sunday Times is reporting that Facebook read text messages of users who downloaded the social network's smartphone app.
The story is behind a paywall, but Fox News summarized the article and said Facebook admitted to reading text messages as part of a trial to launch its own messaging service. It is not clear whether Facebook has discontinued the practice.
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"Your personal information is a precious commodity, and companies will go to great lengths to get their hands on as much of it as possible," Emma Draper, of the Privacy International campaign group, told the newspaper.
Facebook, according to the report, joins several high-profile Web firms that have been caught snooping on their customers. Flickr, dating site Badoo and Yahoo Messenger have all been accused of accessing users' private data, and YouTube can remotely access and operate a smartphone's camera, security experts told the Times. My Remote Lock and the app Tennis Juggling Game have the ability to intercept phone calls.
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