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How can it be?
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I think we could reasonably disagree about whether or not it's nefarious. Siphoning everyone's contacts is iffy to start with.
It's not exactly without consent
I wouldn't say this practice is very "consensual".
I think Facebook also connects people who appear at the same wireless access points, so you could have received the suggestion once your phone connected to the Internet at the doctor's office.
The correct answer is that if you have the FB app installed, it tracks your location. If you are in any place with another person with the FB app also installed multiple times, it assumes you two know each other.
It is why therapists and other medical professionals should not have FB (or any social network app, for that matter) installed on their phone (or, alternatively, on while in the work place).
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I'm glad you covered the bi-directional aspects of the association. A number of years ago FB had a vulnerability I discovered whereby it was possible to register an account with an e-mail you don't own. Obviously it wouldn't be possible to then verify the account if the owner of the e-mail targeted failed to click on the verify link. To get around this, upon first authenticating with the account after registration it…
This was easy to do as late as 2010. I haven't tried it recently but it was a common attack for quite a while: https://caseysoftware.com/blog/social-media-for-social-evil-...
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It's not exactly without consent
My old manager wanted me to install WhatsApp. WhatsApp wanted to access my phone's address book so that it could upload all of my contact info to their [Facebook's] servers. I denied it, and it refused to work. I didn't want to share my contacts - I just wanted to communicate with a specific set of people. The only workaround I could find is back up and delete all my contacts before letting WhatsApp rummage through m…
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My old manager wanted me to install WhatsApp. WhatsApp wanted to access my phone's address book so that it could upload all of my contact info to their [Facebook's] servers. I denied it, and it refused to work. I didn't want to share my contacts - I just wanted to communicate with a specific set of people. The only workaround I could find is back up and delete all my contacts before letting WhatsApp rummage through m…
You wanted to use the app. The app makes the rules. Either use it or don't. I don't see how they had a gun to your head.
We've gone through this many times, its nothing nefarious. 1) doctor uploads his contacts (phone number/email addresses) to facebook and sets his contact info 2) you upload your contacts and set your contact info if there's one match between them, facebook believes (correctly) that there is some sort of existing relationship between you. The fact that its professional and not personal and you want facebook to just be…
No,your doctor actually is not allowed to upload your contact information as a patient to Facebook. It is against regulations. Patient information is private, including contact information. If he or she has done so it IS nefarious.
We've gone through this many times, its nothing nefarious. 1) doctor uploads his contacts (phone number/email addresses) to facebook and sets his contact info 2) you upload your contacts and set your contact info if there's one match between them, facebook believes (correctly) that there is some sort of existing relationship between you. The fact that its professional and not personal and you want facebook to just be…
1) The doctor/practice does not have my latest mobile phone number as I have not been to them in years. Having said that, it may be an old number on which I used to use Facebook. This friend suggestion is only in the past few months, which suggests that they are mining friend circles in historic usage data - everyone you know, and ever knew. All that being said, this would require my doctor to have my personal mobile number on her personal mobile phone on which she would have used Facebook at some point in time, which is absolutely impossible in a professional setting.
2) I have not installed Facebook on my current phone.
I'm still not convinced by any argument here, beyond the doctor actively looking me up on Facebook personally outside work.
We've gone through this many times, its nothing nefarious. 1) doctor uploads his contacts (phone number/email addresses) to facebook and sets his contact info 2) you upload your contacts and set your contact info if there's one match between them, facebook believes (correctly) that there is some sort of existing relationship between you. The fact that its professional and not personal and you want facebook to just be…
I think the original asker said he had never uploaded his contacts. Presumably though Facebook could just follow the reverse relation from the doctor without needing to confirm that it goes both ways.
Besides every other suggestion here, couldn't it be that your doctor actually is a friend of a friend?