Social networking site, Facebook has dismissed reports claiming that it infringed upon user privacy by snooping on its users' text messages.

The company said that such accusations as inaccurate and misleading. A report in the Sunday Times said that Facebook as well as several other online sits like Flickr and YouTube are using smartphone apps to access text message data and other personal information of the users.

The report claimed that Facebook has admitted to reading user messages during a trail of its messaging service. It also accused Facebook of accessing other details like user location, contacts list, and browser history of the users and even passing it on to third parties including advertisers.

Facebook has responded to the report by saying that it Sunday Times report was "completely wrong." It said that it is possible to access text because it conducted some tests of products that need short message service to be linked with the Facebook app.

"So the Sunday Times is completely wrong when it says Facebook is reading people's SMS. Wrong on the terminology, and wrong on the suggestion that it has been implemented," Facebook said.

A few months ago, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) had accused the social networking giant of engaging in "unfair and deceptive" practices and had subjected the company to privacy audits for the next twenty years.

The FTC had said that the company made user information open to public on the Internet. It also said that Facebook allowed advertisers to gather some personally identifiable information when a user clicked on an advertisement on the social network.

Facebook has affirmed that it does not share any user information with advertisers.