Kaspersky says Facebook wishes to read SMSs and other confidential info of users

A leading security brand, Kaspersky, recently said that Facebook, the leading social network, has easy access to the confidential information about users, including the multimedia and text messages through the mobile app.

The Social Network Giant, Facebook, according to Kaspersky can easily access the sensitive information about users and their personal text messages, by the use of the Android mobile platform.

Since past few days, there have been constant scrutinies over Facebook having access to the SMSs of users. This feature has been embedded in the latest Android app by Facebook that has become a matter of concern for some users.

Facebook provides a two-factor authentication, which ensures added security, thus it’s good of Facebook presenting users with this alternative. It’s thus recommended that users before installing any new app for the first time must carefully check about the permissions same is requesting, most experts at Kaspersky and other security companies suggest this measure to users.

When installing the Android mobile phone app for Facebook, the same asks users to allow permission to Read the Text Messages, including the MMS as well as the SMS.

Facebook, on the other hand says, that if a user adds a phone number to their account, this gives them the permission to automatically confirm the user’s phone number by finding the confirmation code, which is send in the form of a text message.

Kaspersky raised concerns about the word “automatic”, which is used in the permission that is asked for by Facebook. The chief concern lies in the word, ‘automatically’. Facebook must do something about this permission and must ask users to manually update the same, rather than doing this on its own.

Facebook turned 10 on 4^th Feb 2014 and it recently announced the quarterly results too. Considering the mobile phone users, Facebook in the last quarter saw a significant increase in the same. The company said to have seen a 39% increase from the last year and now the monthly active user count on mobile for Facebook has reached the 945 million count. Also, it’s been shown that about 296 million Facebook users use their cell phones only, instead of the PC, to access their Facebook accounts.

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