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Facebook Messenger (and Facebook Messenger Kids)

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Data recenzji: 8 września 2021

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Facebook Messenger has features like video chat, the ability to record voice messages, text chats, group chats, photo, video sharing and a feature called Messenger Rooms that allows up to 50 people to chat over video at once even without a Facebook account. Messenger Kids is a messaging app targeted at kids under 13 who are not yet old enough to join Facebook. It lets kids video chat and message their friends through their parents' Facebook account. Facebook is pretty well known for vacuuming up users' personal data, including stating in its privacy policy it can use the camera feature to collect data on you. The company does say it won't use the content of your messages to serve you ads, so there's that. And with more kids stuck at home, using Messenger Kids to connect remotely with their friends, it’s always good to beware of Facebook’s poor track record protecting their users’ privacy.

Co się może stać, jeśli coś pójdzie nie tak?

With Facebook-owned apps we always worry there is a good deal that could go wrong. Facebook has a long history of not handling people's personal data with care. In 2019, Facebook confirmed a report that it hired contractors to read and transcribe audio messages users sent through Messenger and Facebook. And earlier in 2021, the personal data of over 500 million Facebook users--information like phone numbers, Facebook IDs, full names, locations, birthdates, bios, and, in some cases, email addresses--was publicly posted on a hacker forum. Facebook says it doesn't use the content of messages to choose which ads to show you. But Facebook makes no such claim about the other types of insights tucked inside your messaging app — who you're speaking to, when you speak to them, and other types of metadata. Facebook sucks up a great deal of this type of data to use for ad targeting and reserves the right to share it with numerous third parties. There are no ads served to kids in Facebook Messenger and Facebook claims they don’t use data from the Messenger Kids app for ads in their other apps. It does still collect children’s data though, so be wary, as you’re trusting Facebook with information about your young children. Also, Facebook markets the Messenger Kids app to children under the age of 13, so parents who let their young children use Facebook Messenger Kids should pay close attention to what their kids share. All in all, if you do decide to use Facebook Messenger, it’s probably best to assume nothing you say or do is actually private.

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Aparat

Urządzenie: Nie dotyczy

Aplikacja: Tak

Mikrofon

Urządzenie: Nie dotyczy

Aplikacja: Tak

Śledzi położenie

Urządzenie: Nie dotyczy

Aplikacja: Tak

Czego można użyć do rejestracji?

Either email or phone number are required.

Jakie dane zbiera ta firma?

Osobiste

Name, email, location, geolocations on photos you upload, marital status, city of residence, employment and education, phone number, audio data, video data. Facebook does not provide a product-specific privacy notice for Messenger, so we have relied on their privacy policy for this information. We cannot verify which of the items listed for this specific product may or may not be collected.

Jak ta firma wykorzystuje te dane?

Facebook claims to not sell its data, but it shares data with numerous third parties such as partners who use their analytics services, advertisers, measurement partners, partners offering goods and services in Facebook products, vendors and service providers, researchers and academics, law enforcement, and legal requests. Facebook also uses data on its own vast advertisement network.

Jak możesz kontrolować swoje dane?

Facebook claims to store data until it is no longer necessary to provide their services and Facebook Products or until your account is deleted – whichever comes first. Therefore, the only clear way for data deletion is deleting the Facebook profile. It can take up to 90 days to delete data.

Jaka jest znana historia tej firmy w zakresie ochrony danych użytkowników?

Zła

In August 2019, Bloomberg reported that Facebook hired contractors to transcribe audio messages users sent through Messenger and Facebook confirmed the report. In April 2021, it was reported that there was a personal data leak of about 533 million Facebook users from 106 countries, including over 32 million records on users in the US, 11 million on users in the UK, and 6 million on users in India. It includes their phone numbers, Facebook IDs, full names, locations, birthdates, bios, and, in some cases, email addresses. In January 2021, Google Project Zero security researcher Natalie Silvanovich discovered a logic bug in Messenger that would allow audio or video to be transmitted without user consent. The bug was promptly fixed.

Czy ten produkt może być używany bez połączenia z siecią?

Nie dotyczy

Przyjazne dla użytkownika informacje o prywatności?

Nie

Facebook provides a privacy policy which is written in a simple language, in a Q&A format. An additional policy is issued for Messenger Kids. However, it provides rather vague answers to some important questions (e.g., types of data collected, ways to delete the data without deleting the profile, etc.). The nature and volume of sharing of data to third parties is also unclear from the policy, as well as usage of data for advertisement.

Odnośniki do informacji o prywatności

Czy ten produkt spełnia nasze minimalne standardy bezpieczeństwa?

Tak

Szyfrowanie

Tak

Messenger uses encryption but does not use end-to-end encryption by default. People using the Messenger app on iOS and Android can opt-in to "Secret Conversations" that do use end-to-end encryption for text, audio, and video chats. As for end-to-end encryption by default, here's what the company says, "While we expect to make more progress on default end-to-end encryption for Messenger and Instagram Direct this year, it's a long-term project and we won't be fully end-to-end encrypted until sometime in 2022 at the earliest."

Silne hasło

Tak

Messenger requires a strong password to login. However, calls cannot be password-protected.

Aktualizacje zabezpieczeń

Tak

Zajmuje się problemami z bezpieczeństwem

Tak

Facebook has a bug bounty program

Zasady ochrony prywatności

Tak

Czy produkt wykorzystuje sztuczną inteligencję?

Tak

Facebook employs "artificial intelligence to identify unusual behavioral patterns correlated with phishing, scamming, and other harmful activities to remove them from the platform."

Czy tej sztucznej inteligencji nie można ufać?

Nie można ustalić

Jakie decyzje sztuczna inteligencja podejmuje o Tobie lub za Ciebie?

Czy firma jest przejrzysta w kwestii działania sztucznej inteligencji?

Nie

Czy użytkownik ma kontrolę nad funkcjami sztucznej inteligencji?

Nie można ustalić

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