Facebook's response to the new permissions requested by the new version for Android

We are here again to tell you about the permissions that new versions of Android applications like the one need. Facebook that many of us consider abusive and that previously they did not need them for their proper functioning.

In this case that concerns us Facebook wanted to clarify the specific point in which the application asks us for special permissions to to be able to read our SMS.

Taking advantage of this specific point, Facebook wanted to explain why each of the requested permissions and according to our personal opinion, in particular mine that I am the one who is writing this article, nothing has been clear to us.

Below I attach an explanatory table about the permissions of Facebook App:

How can you check the list of necessary permissions and the direct explanation of Facebook, we can find things as absurd as the permissions to read our SMS to just intercept the message of the Messenger activation code for example and that in this way we avoid copying and pasting manually.

But who tells me that Facebook Do you use that personal information for commercial purposes such as to send me advertising related to my interests?

Another rough point that I do not see the use of, is in the penultimate clarification that Facebook gives us in terms of calendar events that although the first part that says «add or modify events » it is something logical for its correct operation. The second part that says «Send emails to guests without explicit knowledge of the owner» It is somewhat more complicated to understand because they need such permission to send emails on our behalf to whoever they want and without any knowledge of the account owner.

The fact is that this of permissions for Android It has taken a turn that does not quite convince many users, and it is that many applications that we had previously installed and that worked perfectly, see this same case of Facebook, they did not need such amount of permissions and permissions that many of us consider unnecessary for the proper functioning of the application.

And do you think these permits that we grant to Facebook for Android?

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