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Friday, June 28, 2013

Bug in Facebook Application on Android Sent the Personal Information to Facebook Servers without Your permission

According to Norton Mobile Insights,Facebook Application running on Android has send your Mobile number to Facebook Servers,without the permission of users


When you first start the Facebook application,even if you are not logged in your mobile number is sent to Facebook servers.Norton also said if a users didn't have any Facebook account and user opens app,his mobile number is also sent to servers.

According to Google Play more than 700 million users has downloaded this app and most of the users are affected by this problem.

Norton sends this report to facebook Inc. and the company replied that problem will be solved out in next release and they even said the telephone numbers are not of their use,So they were deleted immediately from servers

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