The Facebook Android App Is Asking for Superuser Privileges and Users Are Freaking Out

guest · May 18, 2018

The Facebook Android App Is Asking for Superuser Privileges and Users Are Freaking Out
May 18, 2018
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ne...eruser-privileges-and-users-are-freaking-out/

The Facebook Android app is asking for superuser permissions, and a bunch of users are freaking out about granting the Facebook app full access to their device, an understandable reaction following the fallout from the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal.
"Grants full access to your device," read the prompts while asking users for superuser permissions.
Prompts originate from the official Facebook app
These popups originate from the official Facebook Android app (com.facebook.katana)" and are started appearing last night [UTC timezone], continuing throughout the day.

Panicked users took to social media, Reddit, and Android-themed forums to share screengrabs of these suspicious popups and ask for advise or what's going on: [...]
Most likely a coding error
If there was a time for Facebook developers to screw up their code, this is about the worst time to do so. With all the privacy implications of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, users are now piling up new paranoid accusations with every new angry tweet and forum reply, blaming the social network of new nefarious spying attempts.
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RockLobster · May 18, 2018

Hmmm yeah, and on some phones the FaceBook app is preinstalled.

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