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		rhizome on April 4, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Facebook Home destroys any notion of privacy Does creating their own launcher give them any data on non-FB applications used on the phone?

untog on April 4, 2013 [–]

Not automatically, no. But in theory they could see who you call if they built their own dialer, see who you text if they build their own SMS client (Messenger already does this), etc. etc.

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