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		anaphor on Jan 28, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Facebook can now read your texts "view Wi-Fi connections". Hmm, is there a reason it also needs the geolocation permission and that? Are they gathering their own geolocation data bootstrapped from google's somehow?

nl on Jan 28, 2014 [–]

The "view Wi-Fi connections" thing is probably for the free Facebook WiFi access thing[1].

[1] https://www.facebook.com/help/126760650808045

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