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You know that list of permissions you breeze by when downloading an app? The ones you likely don’t read but that could contain all kinds of little things you might not want to put in the hands of say, Facebook? Yeah. You should probably be reading those, since Facebook permissions for its mobile app allows for it to read your text messages if they want to. [More]
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