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Facebook recommends psychiatrist’s patients friend each other

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Re: Facebook recommends psychiatrist’s patients friend each other

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Moral: don't use users' contact lists to bootstrap or enhance social services. Barring strong differential privacy implementations, it will cause problems.

Implementing a 'what friends do I have on this service?' feature is one thing. Retaining that data and feeding it in to the recommender is very likely to cause this kind of problem.