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I'm like 99% certain they've been doing this for a while. I've noticed that anybody I talk to using WhatsApp quickly appears as a suggested contact on Facebook. As far as I'm aware, I did nothing to enable this. It does seem awfully creepy, but I guess if you care about privacy you're not using Facebook much anyway…
What happens if a whatsapp user doesn't have a Facebook account? More interestingly, what if a someone never uses FB account on his/her phone, like I do?
As for the former, also likely irrelevant - Facebook has been keeping Shadow Profiles [1-4] for some time now, and whether or not you have an account, Facebook probably knows a lot about you just from what you/other people/your browser leaks about you. This information likely will just be amalgamated into the existing profile.
[1] http://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/what-exactly-is-a-...
[2] http://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/what-exactly-is-a-...
[3] http://www.wired.com/2014/10/privacy-friendster/
[4] https://spideroak.com/articles/facebook-shadow-profiles-a-pr...
What happens if a whatsapp user doesn't have a Facebook account? More interestingly, what if a someone never uses FB account on his/her phone, like I do?
This is why using phone numbers as account identifiers is a bad idea. (For the users, at least. Not necessarily for the companies who want to own those users.)
It seemed a bit of an expensive tactic, having to top-up with an initial £10, but now I realise she was quite prescient.
There are also alternatives like Wire, which is really good although it doesn't have the adoption WhatsApp has.
* Downloading Instagram without reading permissions.
* Downloading whatsapp.
* Downloading facebook chat.
* Having friends upload their entire contacts lists to FB, WA, IG, and chat.
* Using the website on mobile and directly putting in the data.
* Using any of their services to message friends my number which becomes a perfectly formatted tel link.
* tweeting zuck.
Facebook has still managed to not retain my number. I mean, I'm still waiting for them to phone me up. If you see this FB, call me maybe?
I'm like 99% certain they've been doing this for a while. I've noticed that anybody I talk to using WhatsApp quickly appears as a suggested contact on Facebook. As far as I'm aware, I did nothing to enable this. It does seem awfully creepy, but I guess if you care about privacy you're not using Facebook much anyway…
That night Facebook was suggesting I add my elderly neighbors as friends. We have 0 friends in common and I don't have Facebook installed on my phone (I just use the browser) so the only excuse I have is when they added me they must have some "share my contacts with Facebook" feature enabled. Now there's some forever connection between them and me on Facebook's servers even though I don't publicly link my phone number to Facebook, it's only added as a password/security recovery.
The article specifies that we can opt out of it. But it doesn't say how to do it? Does it? Does anyone know how to opt out?
Technically, you can but you a limited time window. https://www.whatsapp.com/faq/general/26000016 This is a dark pattern. In fact, once you say "Agree" you only have 30 days to opt-out. > After you agree to our updated Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, you will have an additional 30 days to make this choice by going to Settings > Account > Share my account info in the app. I can't see such an option on my phone.
I'm like 99% certain they've been doing this for a while. I've noticed that anybody I talk to using WhatsApp quickly appears as a suggested contact on Facebook. As far as I'm aware, I did nothing to enable this. It does seem awfully creepy, but I guess if you care about privacy you're not using Facebook much anyway…
Maybe this person stalked me and that is why she appeared on my suggested friends page?