Facebook Home privacy issues

Facebook is not shy to being in the news regarding users privacy. The latest Facebook Home app looks like that some of your data collection is fed back to Facebook showing what other apps you have running.

In some new permissions in the app update let you know that Facebook has permissions to view all of your running apps on your device. At first glance, that seems invasive, but the Facebook app is the backbone to Facebook Home; Facebook Home itself requires no special permissions because it pulls everything through the Facebook app. So, it is a possibility that those permissions are only used when Facebook Home is installed on your phone as well. It’s also a possibility that Facebook has accidentally crossed a privacy line. Who knows.

I suppose if you use Facebook already, your privacy is already been sold to the company.

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