Facebook has announced changes to the way it stores user data, and how apps access data on its platform.<\/p>\n
It expects to make more changes in the coming months, and promised to provide updates as they rolled out.<\/p>\n
In a post on its website<\/strong><\/a>, the company provided a summary of what it said were the most important changes being implemented.<\/p>\n This included call and text history, which is part of an opt-in feature for Messenger or Facebook Lite on Android.<\/p>\n It allows the app to surface the contacts you most frequently communicate with.<\/p>\n “We\u2019ve reviewed this feature to confirm that Facebook does not collect the content of messages – and will delete all logs older than one year,” said Facebook.<\/p>\n “In the future, the client will only upload to our servers the information needed to offer this feature – not broader data such as the time of calls.”<\/p>\n Facebook will also approve all apps that request access to information, such as check-ins, likes, photos, posts, videos, events, and groups.<\/p>\n “We started approving these permissions in 2014, but now we\u2019re tightening our review process – requiring these apps to agree to strict requirements before they can access this data.”<\/p>\n Facebook has announced changes to the way it stores and accesses user data on its platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":221973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[14673,161],"class_list":["post-254769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-api","tag-facebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254769"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254769"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254803,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254769\/revisions\/254803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read:\u00a0Most of Facebook’s user data is vulnerable<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"