The Facebook app for Android uses a feature called “Global enviroment Collector Library” to collect information related to the user's system libraries and send them to the company's servers.
Of course, something like this is not new, since many times the company has been "caught" collecting every data from its users. The news in this case would be that she was not interested data, in a parallel universe ….maybe.
Jane Manchun Wong, an application researcher from Hong Kong, discovered that Facebook's Android application scans the phone, creates lists of system libraries and uploads them to a social network server.
Jane he says:
The Facebook app for Android scans system libraries from its user's phone in the background and uploads them to their host. This is called the Global Collector Library on FaceBook, also known as GLC in the application code.
It periodically uploads the metadata of your system libraries to the company server. There does not appear to be an opt-out option for the Facebook Collector Global Library, nor does it appear to be able to display what has been uploaded to our devices.
We do not know what the purpose of the GLC is, but I suppose it can be used to determine system compatibility.
The Facebook application compresses each file before sending it to its servers to minimize traffic.
At the moment it is not clear what the purpose of this is collectionof data, what Facebook does with the data and whether this data collection is covered or mentioned in the terms of service.
It may be some measure security, but who trusts Facebook;
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