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Facebook 'unintentionally uploaded' 1.5M people's email contacts without consent
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Re: Facebook 'unintentionally uploaded' 1.5M people's email contacts without consent
#32>Facebook says that it didn't mean to upload these contacts
How can you not mean to? It's one thing to say that, were it something tangible, like paper, "Sorry, mate. These pages snuck in with the others. Sorry about that. We'll pull it out. No worries."
Pulling contacts and uploading them is not a passive action but takes active action.
>and is now in the process of deleting them.
So, the question must then be asked: How do they differentiate the sources of contacts associated with an account, unless they're logging that, as well? If they're not logging that, then how are they, presumably, deleting those contacts?
Are we taking bets on Facebook being in the news again, in a months' or so time, for being found to not have deleted them? :)
Re: Facebook 'unintentionally uploaded' 1.5M people's email contacts without consent
#33"unintentionally". Yeah, sure, whatever you say Zuck.
Re: Facebook 'unintentionally uploaded' 1.5M people's email contacts without consent
#34First they ask for email passwords. Then the new users assume Facebook won't comprehensively mine their emails. Then Facebook awkwardly gets caught uploading 1.5 million users' email contacts. It doesn't make sense for people to trust the service at all unless you assume one of two things: 1 - Despite all the outrage on hackernews, and the NWT stories, our neighbours down the street and family members still don't kno…
> "I really do think people have trouble assuming the worst about the intentions of others and are inclined to be trusting." I think you hit the nail on the head. Even on HN, it's not uncommon to see a few comments on each negative story about facebook accusing the media of a conspiracy against Facebook; claiming that the media is wrongly maligning Facebook who is merely the unfortunate victim of a series of coincide…
>They have trouble accepting that a tech corporation like facebook actually might be rotten.
Probably because they work for an evil tech corporation as well (this is HN, where SV techbros hang out, so the probability of that it pretty high) and want to ease their cognitive dissonance.
Re: Facebook 'unintentionally uploaded' 1.5M people's email contacts without consent
#35"unintentionally". Yeah, sure, whatever you say Zuck.
There is so much double speak right now in Corporate America, its sickening.
Re: Facebook 'unintentionally uploaded' 1.5M people's email contacts without consent
#36> Facebook says that it didn't mean to upload these contacts How can you not mean to? It's one thing to say that, were it something tangible, like paper, "Sorry, mate. These pages snuck in with the others. Sorry about that. We'll pull it out. No worries." Pulling contacts and uploading them is not a passive action but takes active action. > and is now in the process of deleting them. So, the question must then be ask…
>How can you not mean to?
Indeed. Expect the next headline to be, "Facebook 'unintentionally failed to delete' 1.5M people's contacts, which they'd previously unintentionally uploaded".
Re: Facebook 'unintentionally uploaded' 1.5M people's email contacts without consent
#37I have a feeling that the US govt agencies will benefit from this "unintentional" upload - if they didn't already.
Re: Facebook 'unintentionally uploaded' 1.5M people's email contacts without consent
#38Can someone use a throwaway e-mail address to sign up for Facebook? Once the e-mail address is validated, is there any further need for a valid e-mail address to continue using FB? Historical fact: Going back to the days when a university address was required, if the user created her Facebook account while at university and her e-mail address later expired when she graduated, FB did not disable the account. Unless on…
I created a temporary email on my domain to use for the Facebook account creation and then disabled it so I stop getting spammed.. I can always re-enable it if I ever need to.
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#39The selfish part of me wishes that the media would stop reporting on the endless procession of privacy violations / attacks by Facebook. It doesn’t seem to change a damn thing (Facebook revenue, DAU, etc seem to just keep going up). All it does it make me depressed, watching as we all just aimlessly shuffle pathetically toward some surveillance capitalism dystopia.
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#40Since FB has gone out of their way to weaponize "friendship", my suggestion to everyone who actually likes to have some standards in their life and don't like to be manipulated like that is simple. Just do it back to them. "Unfriend" (IRL) everyone you know who works at Facebook and tell them you will "friend" them back once they leave the company.