Facebook is in damage control mode after a Sunday Times of London report accused the social media giant of spying on text messages and other personal data sent from users’ smartphones. The report said that Facebook is foremost among mobile app companies that are using permissions obtained when users download apps to access and read text, intercept home calls and track users’ location...Facebook...said it is not reading text messages from the Facebook app for Google’s Android smartphones and is not mining data for market research firms…Iain Mackenzie, a Facebook spokesman...called the Times report “a ludicrous attempt to cook-up a story about companies spying on users…”…U.K. civil liberties group Big Brother Watch...called the mobile app market, "an unregulated Wild West,”...[refers to Apple, Yahoo!, Google, Flickr, YouTube (part of Google)]