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Facebook’s Creepy Data Sharing with Phone Carriers

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Re: Facebook’s Creepy Data Sharing with Phone Carriers

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Original source: https://theintercept.com/2019/05/20/facebook-data-phone-carr...

> the Facebook mobile app harvests and packages eight different categories of information for use by over 100 different telecom companies in over 50 different countries around the world, including usage data from the phones of children as young as 13.

This is not only creepy, but appears to be highly illegal. A clear violation of the 4th Amendment.

Re: Facebook’s Creepy Data Sharing with Phone Carriers

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Original source: https://theintercept.com/2019/05/20/facebook-data-phone-carr...

> the Facebook mobile app harvests and packages eight different categories of information for use by over 100 different telecom companies in over 50 different countries around the world, including usage data from the phones of children as young as 13. This is not only creepy, but appears to be highly illegal. A clear violation of the 4th Amendment.

Only the government can violate the 4th amendment