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I suspected this many years ago when familiar faces from our customers started to appear in the friend suggestion box. I've never installed the FB app on my pho

I suspected this many years ago when familiar faces from our customers started to appear in the friend suggestion box. I've never installed the FB app on my phone, but our less privacy oriented customers probably have. What pisses me off is that while I can choose what information I share, I haven't given other people nor Facebook permission to read phone call logs that involve me.

jobigoud 9y ago
The worst part is that they probably suggested these various customers to befriend themselves, just because they all had you in their contact list. Scenarios like these have been reported with unrelated patients of medical professionals.
- helloindia 9y ago
  Once I accidentally linked my Facebook account with Instagram. I was bombarded with friend suggestions of people I follow on Instagram. I follow strangers in Instagram when I like their photo feed. Facebook is only for family, close friends and relatives. I linked Instagram with dummy Facebook account to flush my Instagram profile of Facebook friend list and vice versa. There was no other way to delink two accounts.
- krick 9y ago
  Wow. I just imagined working as a sales agent or something like this, and how much trouble could Facebook cause me in this case. Even for somebody, who always felt some disdain for Facebook, this is quite mindblowing.
Broken_Hippo 9y ago
To be fair, I get weirdly familiar faces from different times in my life coming in my suggestion box... and I've never had facebook on my phone. I do have Instagram, but this was a trend before it was installed on my phone. Not to mention that I rarely use my phone's "phone" features, including SMS. I live an ocean away from most family and have never had many friends. I have a couple here in the country outside my spouse, and we talking is sporadic at times since they both have young children.
slivym 9y ago
Do you think you have the right to share with people your call logs without the permission of the people you were calling? I would say you do. So I don't see how you can reasonably object to someone sharing with Facebook the fact that they called you in their call log.
- pbhjpbhj 9y ago
  It matters, to me, if its for commercial gain and if it's done with respect for PII. So "I called $phoneNumber" is OK but "I'll sell you details of $person's phone calls" is not.
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eps 9y ago
The same applies to Gmail use. While (an abstract) you may be OK with trading your privacy for a convinience of a free email account, it automatically means me also getting sweeped by Google's information dragnet.
cwkoss 9y ago
Sales lead idea: Make a facebook account and befriend all (and only) your competitors, market to the suggested friends.

jobigoud 9y ago

The worst part is that they probably suggested these various customers to befriend themselves, just because they all had you in their contact list. Scenarios like these have been reported with unrelated patients of medical professionals.

helloindia 9y ago
Once I accidentally linked my Facebook account with Instagram. I was bombarded with friend suggestions of people I follow on Instagram. I follow strangers in Instagram when I like their photo feed. Facebook is only for family, close friends and relatives. I linked Instagram with dummy Facebook account to flush my Instagram profile of Facebook friend list and vice versa. There was no other way to delink two accounts.
krick 9y ago
Wow. I just imagined working as a sales agent or something like this, and how much trouble could Facebook cause me in this case. Even for somebody, who always felt some disdain for Facebook, this is quite mindblowing.

Broken_Hippo 9y ago

To be fair, I get weirdly familiar faces from different times in my life coming in my suggestion box... and I've never had facebook on my phone. I do have Instagram, but this was a trend before it was installed on my phone. Not to mention that I rarely use my phone's "phone" features, including SMS. I live an ocean away from most family and have never had many friends. I have a couple here in the country outside my spouse, and we talking is sporadic at times since they both have young children.

slivym 9y ago

Do you think you have the right to share with people your call logs without the permission of the people you were calling? I would say you do. So I don't see how you can reasonably object to someone sharing with Facebook the fact that they called you in their call log.

pbhjpbhj 9y ago
It matters, to me, if its for commercial gain and if it's done with respect for PII. So "I called $phoneNumber" is OK but "I'll sell you details of $person's phone calls" is not.
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eps 9y ago

The same applies to Gmail use. While (an abstract) you may be OK with trading your privacy for a convinience of a free email account, it automatically means me also getting sweeped by Google's information dragnet.

cwkoss 9y ago

Sales lead idea: Make a facebook account and befriend all (and only) your competitors, market to the suggested friends.