… even for me. \u00a0I’ve been saying for a while that the privacy is pretty much dead, but this new update of Facebook Android app is asking for way too may permissions even for my taste. \u00a0Some of the things that it “needs” now are: access to make phone calls without user intervention, accessing information about other running applications, and drawing over other applications’ screens, so you won’t even know anymore who is responsible for what you are seeing.<\/p>\n
When I got an update notification, I thought, at first, that that was a mistake of some sort or a really late and lame April 1st joke. \u00a0Albeit it’s not. \u00a0Even Slashdot runs the story<\/a>.<\/p>\n For now, I’ll hold the old version. \u00a0Maybe Facebook will rectify this new change. \u00a0If not, then I’ll get rid of it and go back to Twitter and, possibly, Google+.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n … even for me. \u00a0I’ve been saying for a while that the privacy is pretty much dead, but this new update of Facebook Android app is asking for way too may permissions even for my taste. \u00a0Some of the things that it “needs” now are: access to make phone calls without user intervention, accessing information … Continue reading Facebook Android app update is insane …<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,62],"tags":[2271,2400,384,200,1152],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-18000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technology","tag-facebook","tag-google-android","tag-privacy","tag-security","tag-social-networks"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t