Why Facebook's Android App Wants to Read Your Text Messages
Found on International Business Times on Tuesday, 28 January 2014
As the world celebrates Data Privacy Day while reeling from the latest revelations about the NSA using smartphone apps to monitor everything from your name to your sexual orientation - it may not be the best time for Facebook's Android app to request permission to read your text messages.
While people typically click Accept when presented with the permissions an app needs, in the current climate of heightened tension about privacy, people may begin to questions these permissions.
Simple. Facebook wants to know more about it's products to sell them better to customers; and the product is the user.