> Unlikely to take on such a massive intrusion of your privacy, knowing that eventually it would get discovered. I don't think that's a reason for them not to

> Unlikely to take on such a massive intrusion of your privacy, knowing that eventually it would get discovered. I don't think that's a reason for them not to do it. They could just claim it was an accident, they weren't really collecting the data, etc etc ad infinitum and most people would continue to use facebook just as they always have. The day I uninstalled the facebook app was the day it asked for permission to read all text messages (on top of the many, many other permissions it already had). I figured the next step would be audio and video (after all, there wasn't much left to ask for at that point).