今天，英国报纸《星期日****》发表了一篇乍一看似乎令人震惊的关于Facebook侵犯隐私的发现。文章称，作为推出自己的短信服务的一部分，Facebook“承认阅读短信”。故事接着将这一指控与匿名和已知的“**应用程序”混为一谈，后者在你不看的时候窃取你的数据。

只有一个小问题：Facebook说这份报告充其量只是误导。虽然安卓市场上的新Facebook应用程序确实使用了短信读写功能，但这是一个尚未使用的权限，用于测试该公司正在开发的新功能。该应用程序不会从字面上“阅读”您的消息，而且，获得上述访问权限的权限在您安装该应用程序时已明确说明（并且需要得到同意）。我们联系了Facebook，一位发言人说：

The Sunday Times has done some creative c***piracy theorizing but the suggestion that we're secretly reading people's texts is ridiculous. Instead, the permission is clearly disclosed on the app page in the Android marketplace and is in anticipation of new features that enable users to integrate Facebook features with their texts. However, other than some very limited testing, we haven't launched anything so we're not using the permission. If we do, it will be obvious to users what's happening. We'll keep you posted on our progress.

根据《****》其余的文章，很明显，该报的作者对应用程序的权限工作方式没有深入的了解。这篇文章的大部分似乎都是为了鼓动恐惧、不确定性和怀疑，用空洞的、事实上空洞的段落，比如：

One academic said many apps were simply a "front" for the mining of private information, and a **artphone entrepreneur confessed his sole purpose for releasing apps was to "load them with advertisements."

根据我们与Facebook的对话，似乎很明显，该公司非常清楚你**上任何社交应用程序所固有的潜在隐私问题。不幸的是，《星期日****》选择了如此草率的方式来解决一个真正的问题。

注意：星期日****的来源链接隐藏在付费墙后面。