How To Stop Facebook From Recording Your Call & SMS Data?

Facebook is having a not-so-good time since last month as it has come under scrutiny from several government authorities for sharing user data with a third-party consulting firm. For the same #DeleteFacebook has been trending in twitter and many of us have of course deleted our Facebook accounts as well in the same row of data stealing.

Recently social media giant has also been in limelight gathering regular call and SMS data records from smartphones. It is also possible to turn off this feature by visiting the Messenger settings page for Messenger and Facebook Lite users. Follow the steps below to stop Facebook from recording your call-

If you want to see your Recorded data and delete it in Facebook, visit below links

1. Login to your Facebook account
2. Messenger users can visit the link and delete all contact information.
3. Facebook Lite users can perform the same steps from link.

The social media giant reconfirmed that it never sells these data and the feature does not collect the content of the SMS or calls.
You can however, check what all data of yours has Facebook captured until now. All you need to do is to download the .zip file.

The steps to download data from Facebook are as below

1. From your desktop, visit the page
2. Go to account setting page, Click on ‘Download a copy’ link from the bottom at General account settings page
3. Once clicked, you will see a ‘Download your information’ page with an option to click on ‘Start my Archive’.
4. Clicking on that will open a dialogue box asking for your password. Once the password is provided, there will be a prompt saying that Facebook will notify you once the data is ready to download.
5. Once ready, you can click on the notification and download the .zip file on the desktop.
6. After downloading, extract the files and click on ‘HTML’ followed by ‘contact_info’
7. Scroll below and see what all call and SMS data of yours Facebook has gathered over the years.

The document also shows what all advertisers are using your Facebook contact information. This can be seen under the ‘Ads’ option. There is also an option to see the same from inside the app as well.

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