I think this article is simply spreading FUD. It has a many inaccuracies that have been highlighted and as far as I'm concerned is simply looking to get an audi

I think this article is simply spreading FUD. It has a many inaccuracies that have been highlighted and as far as I'm concerned is simply looking to get an audience with sensationalist Facebook privacy bandwagon Firstly the sync feature: [+] offers enough notice and gets consent [+] does not take your entire contacts including their phone numbers and put this in your Facebook phonebook accessible to all - I use it and all I can see in my Facebook phonebook is the friends who have shared their phone numbers already Secondly the real sensitivity of this data: [+] I mean seriously it is a name, a phone number and maybe an email address. How sensitive is this? If I have a name I can find a phone number through this magic book called the white pages. You can find an email address in so many places and if you can find somewhere where they work it is not hard to guess firstname.lastname@company.com or 8 characters of surname + 1 of first name @ company.com If someone receives unsolicited emails that is simple to deal with and everyone does it every day. Phone calls similarly are not hard to report and get blocked. I use my google contacts as my phone's contacts with exchange ActiveSync and linking to Facebook and Linked is great - it allows me to create email groups very easily and always have to hand an email address or a phone number on my phone or on a desktop endpoint. Syncing this data is just convenient and people should not be put off by sensationalist articles such as these.