Signed up for the new Facebook messenger app? But did you read the terms & conditions, they're scary!

New Delhi: How many of you have bothered to read the entire terms and condition page before signing up for an internet application or downloading it? According to an article written in Huffington Post, Facebook messenger application requires you to accept one such 'terms and conditions' page with an endless list of points which most of us blindly choose to agree with. A large number of points mentioned in the app's are controversial, to say the least, and severely interfere with you privacy. Once acknowledged, the application has the permission to change your network connectivity. It also authorises the application to make phone calls without your intervention. A malicious application can easily make calls using your phone. The cost of the call will be deducted from your account. In a similar manner, the application authorises it to make SMSes without your confirmation. That’s not all, the application authorises the recording of audio with the help of phone's microphone and make use of the camera as well. The application has the capacity to take pictures using the camera of your Smartphone, without your permission. Data about incoming and outgoing calls, call logs can be shared by the application without requiring consent from the user. The application has access to personal profile information stored at your device. It can make use of your profile picture and send information to other users. It also provides access to features and details of the phone being used by the user. The article argues that there is nothing called as 'Free Apps'. The free apps are paid for by the provision of providing advertisers with information about personal data such as name, location, browsing history etc. The data and information obtained by the application developers are then passed on to the advertisers who use it target a specific group of consumers. In case of Facebook's messenger application the amount of snooping is unparallel and insidious, claims the article. With more than 1,000,000,000 users, the messenger application could prove to be one of the world's biggest data banks!