Here's How All Android Users Can Stop Facebook From Collecting Private Data, Call Logs & SMS Details

We all love to connect with our friends all over the world and from anywhere you want to. You love to catch up with some of your old school friends or stalk your ex about his/her life. However, recently Facebook was found collecting call and SMS history from users who use the Messenger or Facebook Lite apps on Android smartphones. It is an opt-in feature most users tend to agree without ever looking through the terms and conditions in detail. © Facebook However, if you are not in the mood to have your data being tracked by Facebook and want to have more privacy, you can simply disable the function that tracks your data. You will simply have to disable the “Sync Contacts” function. Follow these steps: 1. From Home, tap your profile picture in the top right corner. 2. Tap People. 3. Tap Sync Contacts to turn this setting off. Once you switch off the contact uploading feature, the contacts that were previously uploaded to Messenger will automatically delete. You can also go to the “Manage Uploaded Contacts for Messenger screen” and tap Delete All > Delete All. © Facebook If you are currently using the Facebook Lite app, you can follow these steps detailed on Facebook here. You can now sleep easily at night as you have removed Facebook's access to your contacts and other private data. Facebook never collected any contents or your calls or texts but it's easier to be on the safer side than being sorry.