The reports document its proven ability to access
deleted call logs, videos, photos, and emails to name a few, in addition to the Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram apps.
Facebook will also
delete call logs older than a year for Messenger and Facebook Lite users on Android who have opted - in to the call and text history feature.
The company says it will
delete all call logs older than one year, and reiterated that it was not collecting the contents of a user's message.
Not exact matches
To give users more privacy controls, Facebook is working on a new feature
called Clear History, to enable users to
delete their browsing information while they are
logged in to the main Facebook app.
The new plugin,
called Facebook Container, blocks these trackers by
deleting your Facebook cookies and
logging you out of the site.
The content of text messages on Messenger will not be collected, and
call logs will be
deleted after a year.
Dating a guy I met on Match about 6 weeks He talks about us being only for each other yet rarely
calls or texts good night it's great when we are together but then he's back online He said he was
deleting profile but it's still There Last night within two hours of my leaving his place, he was back online and had changed profile to visible Then back to hidden when he
logged off later
Also, make sure that you always
delete all your SMSs and
call logs from your phone immediately after use.
If you have
deleted a number in your
Call Logs that is not associated with your Address Book: On your BlackBerry homescreen: 1.
Facebook added that only users who gave appropriate permission were affected, that it didn't collect the contents of messages or
calls, and that users can opt out of the data collection and have the stored
logs deleted by changing their app settings.
After the whole Cambridge Analytica news and getting caught storing
call and text
logs for Android users who used Messenger, it has now come out that Facebook was secretly
deleting messages sent by Mark Zuckerberg and other executives at the company.
For Android users, Facebook is
deleting logs of
call and text history and information Facebook receives, meant to surface people frequently contacted, will be limited.
Last week, some Facebook users who were prompted to download their data in advance of
deleting their accounts were shocked to find that they contained detailed
logs of all
calls and SMS messages they had sent with their phones, even if they didn't use Facebook applications to make or receive phone
calls or texts.
UPDATE (3/30/18): Although Facebook's statement claims that changing this setting will also result in previously
logged call and text history being
deleted, this does not appear to be true for previously uploaded contact data.
Update: Facebook has told us that
deleting those contacts also
deletes the
call and messaging
logs, even though they're not explicitly referred to on the page.
It's unclear whether Facebook's tool to
delete contact information would also
delete the
call and SMS
logs.
This is not the case,» before going on to explain that
call and text history
logging is included with an opt - in feature on Messenger or Facebook Lite for Android that «people have to expressly agree to use» and that they can turn off at any time, which would also
delete any
call and text data shared with that app.
Following scandals with Cambridge Analytica and being discovered of storing
call and text
logs for Android users of its Messenger app, it was reported that Facebook was secretly
deleting Messenger messages sent by Mark Zuckerberg and other executives at the company.
On Wednesday, Facebook said will
delete all
logs after a year and in the future, the only information this tool will collect from now on is the data that it needs to operate and «not broader data such as the time of
calls.»
Note that the tutorial will ask you to wipe data, but it will
delete only the System partition, the one that contains installed apps, SMS,
Call logs etc..
Facebook is now reducing the amount of data it collects, and
deleting old
call logs.