Why is anybody surprised with meta ? Seriously, you guys ignore all the news about that company and privacy for last 2 decades? Privacy for them is an obstacle to engineer around and nothing more, and this is baked to the core of their philosophy, not some rogue fringe team pursuing results at all costs for past 3 months.

There was a time I had their FB app and messenger on the phone. Then it was found out that their crappy engineering couldn't hide the fact their apps were constantly watching users and other apps on entire phone, causing >15% additional battery drain, even when they were not opened.

I've removed all of them, never needed them on phone (or at all) and can't complain at all. Don't expect privacy form meta, any, ever.