These are the permissions that Facebook applications have on your mobile

When we install an application on our phone, it asks us for a series of permissions to function. For example, Instagram needs to access our phone's camera to be able to take pictures with the app itself. Yes, we can take a photo with the application that comes on our phone, but it is much more convenient to use Instagram itself

After the controversy that occurred with Facebook and the use of data without permission of millions of users by the company Cambridge Analytica, the user has gone up in arms.It has even started a campaign (hashtag included) to promote a massive deletion of the social network. Something we doubt is going to work on something: if we are worried about our privacy, we must remember that Zuckerberg also owns Instagram and WhatsApp. And whoever thinks that he is safe because he does not have Facebok… get the idea out of his head.

We can always be aware of the permissions requested by applications belonging to Facebook in order to act accordingly. That is why we are going to tell you what permissions the Facebook applications have on your mobile: WhatsApp, Instagram or Facebook Messenger. If you decide to stay with them once you find out, it's your decision. Always remember that if the application is 'free', the product is you.

Permissions in WhatsApp

Previously, when we downloaded an app and before installing it, the Play Store informed us of all the permissions it needed to work.Not now: now we are asked for them as we require various functions, such as taking a photo or sharing location.

Photos, media, and files

When you want to send multimedia content or some type of file such as a word document or PDF, WhatsApp hineneeds to 'look' in your gallery and inside your phone. If you deny this permission to WhatsApp, you won't be able to do any of this.

Contacts

An essential permission: WhatsApp is all about sending and receiving messages with the contacts you have in your phonebook. If you don't allow it, the app won't do you any good. It is also an essential permission to share contact cards.

Send and view SMS

At the beginning of the installation, WhatsApp sends a message to your phone with a personal code to verify the phone number.And you don't have to write that code, WhatsApp already does it for you. To do this, you have to grant him the permission so that he can send you and read your messages. It's fine with us that he read the message he himself sends, but why does he need to have to read the rest? Or wouldn't it be more appropriate to just give him permission to send SMS and we put the code? It's not that much work and so we would have more privacy

Take photos and record videos

Do you want to send photos and take them from the application? Videos? Well, you must let WhatsApp enter your camera A permission that, basically, is not too dangerous... unless it records you with the front camera. An event that has not yet occurred... that we know of.

Record audio

The famous audios.Many choose to record themselves and send the content of their speech to their interlocutor instead of writing the message. It is simple and much more comfortable. But what happens? That we are giving WhatsApp permission to record audio through the microphone Does this mean that WhatsApp can record our conversations? At first, it should only be activated when we press the button to record audio. But who knows?

Location

How many times have they told us 'send me the location later if that by WhatsApp? In order to tell others where we are, WhatsApp needs to know. If we share our location, it is mandatory to let the app access Google's location. Where we are? Zuckerberg knows it.

Permissions on Instagram

As in WhatsApp, permissions will be requested each time we want to use a function that requires it. We tell you which are all those that appear in this application.

Storage

Permission needed to be able to share photos from the gallery on our wall or in the Stories. If we do not allow it, we can only post photos that we take with the application itself.

Contacts

If you want to have all your friends (contacts in the phone book) on Instagram or, at least, know how many of them have Instagram, you have to allow them to read your agenda from A to Z.

Camera

We referred to this permission in the Storage section. If we want to be able to take photos from the camera app that includes Instagram, we must allow it to access it.If not, we will have to take the photos with the phone app and then share it on Instagram. But for this we must have let it investigate our internal storage.

Microphone

An essential permission so that in the videos we can be hear correctly It happens as in WhatsApp: if you only listen to us when we make a video Why do we then see ads for products that we have not searched for on Google, but have only been the protagonists of an irrelevant conversation between friends?

SMS

Read and send SMS from your phone. A permission that we must activate if we want to activate two-step authentication to increase the security of our account.

Phone

If we let it, Instagram can make and receive calls on our phone.

Location

If we want to find posts by location, this permission must be enabled. It is not essential, but to browse is not bad. It is in your power to give it to him.

Facebook and Facebook Messenger

Mr. Zuckerberg's star apps. These are all the permissions that he asks for the apps to work correctly:

Storage

Both applications will be able to see everything you have inside your mobile phone. If you want to post a photo on Facebook or send it via Messenger, you must grant it.

Calendar

Your agenda at the service of Facebook: appointments, places to visit, everything you write down in your calendar will be visible to Facebook and Messenger .

Contacts

Names and phone numbers (and any information you have on contact cards) from your address book.

Camera

To be able to take photos and videos directly from the application

Microphone

Permission for Facebook and Messenger to access your phone's microphone. Have you ever been surprised to see an ad for a hotel on Facebook that you have been talking about with your partner? There you have the solution to the enigma.

SMS

Send, read and receive all text messages you have on your phone.

Phone

Receive and make calls. You give it permission, and the apps do what they see fit.

Location

Where are you at the moment? If you give permission, Facebook and Messenger will continually know.

Now that you know all the permissions that Mark Zuckerberg's applications ask for, it is up to you to grant them. It is true that some permissions are mandatory (contacts on WhatsApp, for example) but there are others that, if you don't use them, why give them to them? If you never send audio on WhatsApp, wouldn't it be better if the app didn't listen to anything you say?