> But check out the exact wording of the SMS/MMS Permission, and that of the Contacts one. It's impossible to word it in any different way, no matter what you

> But check out the exact wording of the SMS/MMS Permission, and that of the Contacts one. It's impossible to word it in any different way, no matter what you want to do with messages - even if your code is written to read message from one specific number and not even do anything with it the permission text will stay the same. This is text that was set by google. > What honest and useful reason can Facebook have to get access to my texts? If the author googled it he would would have noticed official facebook page that explains the permission used. It's used only to confirm your phone number - if you want to. > Yet as I say time and time again, this has to be opt-in Android permissions don't allow opt-in, or opt-out for that matter. > All it wants are numbers, pure and simple, and the data that comes with these numbers to sell to the highest bidder. Use something equivalent of privacy settings in CM, I think they're using the AppsOps (sp?) and you'll see that non of the data was even accessed let alone sold to highest bidder. _____ This article is unresearched, paranoid, bullshit.