If one never uses facebook on their smartphone could they still mine that data?
Apparently, according to the article, it only mined that data if you gave it permission to access your contacts, which it asks for upon installing the app. If you said no then I’m guess your phone wouldn’t have allowed the app to access it, or maybe the app wouldn’t have tried. It’s still disturbing because “having access to” contacts doesn’t clearly imply that it’s monitoring your calls and texts, so it’s a lack of transparency on Facebook’s part.