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Facebook privacy fuckup reveals who has your number in their phone
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Re: Facebook privacy fuckup reveals who has your number in their phone
#122I think I've found another troublesome method that Facebook is using to suggest new friends. A few years ago, I created a Google profile with a vanity URL [1] and a Facebook account with the same Gmail address. I never linked those two accounts, used third-party apps or imported contacts into Facebook. I recently created a Google+ profile and publicly circled some users when I suddenly noticed that those circled user…
Could it be that you are in their Gmail contact list? I don't have a public Google profile, and never gave Facebook my Gmail password, yet I get suggestions for people I have emailed once years ago. The only explanation I can think of is that I'm in their email contact list, or that they've searched for my name on Facebook at some point.
I know that Facebook uses the contact lists of your friends to suggests users to you [1], but I'm 99% sure Peter Norvig doesn't have my email address in his contact list, and that none of my Facebook friends are linked to him.
Re: Facebook privacy fuckup reveals who has your number in their phone
#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
A company doesn't have a single conscience. It may have been a conscious choice by an engineer, or it may have been an unintended consequence of some other code change. Either way, I highly doubt it involved the check-off from a director-level employee. If every decision had to get approval from the management team, then progress would grind to a halt, and Facebook would end up like Microsoft.
> A company doesn't have a single conscience. And because of that we should hold it with less responsibility than a single person? Even though it holds an order of magnitude more power than a single person? Yeah, how about, no. And about your other remark, that is nonsense. It is very possible to keep those checks to a reasonable level of responsibility and many corporations do so, with proper software engineering pr…
No, I was simply offering a potential explanation for why things happen.
Also, I see no need to respond to your hyperboles. I mean, "criminal negligence"? C'mon.
Re: Facebook privacy fuckup reveals who has your number in their phone
#124I am not surprised by this. If I share my phone's contact list with Facebook, I expect that it will become a part of the social graph, just as who I am friends with on Facebook is.
Do you think, facebook should tell you about this forehand in simple words ?
I've been thinking about your question for a day, and I'm really not sure. To me, this sort of thing is obvious. It's just how I think about Facebook. But some people are continually surprised at what Facebook knows about them, or what it can find out. And I don't know how to be more explicit with them.
In other words, I think that this sort of thing is implicit in using Facebook. But for some people, they're not. So do you remind them about this every time they do anything new? I don't know.