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This sucks because even if you don't have the application, you might be texting someone who does... facebook can collect that data too and build profiles of people who don't even have the app or even use facebook.

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Good point. Wow, there really is no hope for private communication.

Other than hand-delivered letters and face-to-face conversation in a secluded space, but then again, how can you trust the person you're communicating with to keep those communiques private?

Argh...paranoia...all consuming!

that is a little different but point taken.

if facebook wanted to be nefarious with these newly granted permissions, they have an extremely large pool of data to mine.

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