Facebook is monitoring your phone’s screen activity, web activity, call duration and hardware serial number. Along with this, Facebook is also storing this data. Surprisingly, Facebook does not even ask your permission to access this data.
- Some mobile phone companies are also helping Facebook
- Monitoring screen activity, web activity and call duration
- Be careful before using social media platforms
New Delhi: Even after changing the name, the social networking site Facebook has not changed its actions and is still spying on users. Facebook, which has been in the shadow of many controversies for a long time, had announced to change its business name to Meta (META) just a few days ago. Although Facebook changed its name, it did not stop the work of stealing data from people’s mobile phones. Not only this, due to the antics of violating the privacy of Facebook, youth have also started making distance from Facebook.
- Facebook is stealing your data
According to a study, Facebook is monitoring your phone’s screen activity, web activity, call duration and the serial number of the hardware. Along with this, Facebook is also storing this data. Surprisingly, Facebook does not even ask your permission to access this data.
- If you have installed Facebook then be careful
According to a study by Trinity College, Ireland, if you have installed the Facebook app on your phone, then Facebook will show you the screen activity and web activity you are doing in your mobile phone. ) is watching. That is, Facebook knows what you are searching. Apart from this, the duration of your phone call is being detected. That is, who are you talking to for how long? Moreover, even keeping the serial number of the hardware part of your mobile phone on its server.
- Some mobile phone companies are also helping Facebook
Facebook does not even ask your permission for this. According to experts, some mobile phone companies are helping Facebook in doing this. Actually, some Android phones have Facebook pre-installed, which you cannot uninstall, only disable. In these phones, Facebook keeps an eye on all your movements and you do not even know. A Trinity College study also states that apart from Facebook, Google and Microsoft are also involved in this method of privacy violations.
- youth are keeping distance from facebook
Perhaps this is the reason why many youth are keeping distance from Facebook. American media The Verge claims that there has been a 19 percent decline in the number of American youth using Facebook from the year 2019 to 2021. By 2023, this decline is expected to go up to 45 percent. Similarly, the number of youth in the age group of 20 to 30 years using Facebook has also declined by 4 percent. That is, Facebook is also facing the brunt of its antics.
- Be careful before using social media platforms
For the past several years, instead of providing a platform to prevent violence and privacy for its own benefit, Facebook is not only being opposed but its image is also getting tarnished. To fix this image, took the easiest way in Facebook and changed the name. However, if Facebook had changed its actions instead of changing the name, then perhaps the questions arising on it would have stopped and there would be no need to change the name. There have been hundreds of such allegations of data theft on Facebook. Even after this, Facebook is playing with people’s data. So be careful before using Facebook or any social media platform.
