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>Facebook says that it didn't mean to upload these contacts How can you not mean to? It's one thing to say that, were it something tangible, like paper, "Sorry

>Facebook says that it didn't mean to upload these contacts How can you not mean to? It's one thing to say that, were it something tangible, like paper, "Sorry, mate. These pages snuck in with the others. Sorry about that. We'll pull it out. No worries." Pulling contacts and uploading them is not a passive action but takes active action. >and is now in the process of deleting them. So, the question must then be asked: How do they differentiate the sources of contacts associated with an account, unless they're logging that, as well? If they're not logging that, then how are they, presumably, deleting those contacts? Are we taking bets on Facebook being in the news again, in a months' or so time, for being found to not have deleted them? :)

javajosh 7y ago
>How can you not mean to? Indeed. Expect the next headline to be, "Facebook 'unintentionally failed to delete' 1.5M people's contacts, which they'd previously unintentionally uploaded".
coldcode 7y ago
So Facebook has no QA or Facebook has QA no one listens to? I imagine the latter.
- cobookman 7y ago
  Probably no qa. Lots of tech companies put qa on the developer
mannykannot 7y ago
> Pulling contacts and uploading them is not a passive action but takes active action. Action such as "accidentally" asking for email passwords. It is quite remarkable how these accidents line up just so. Grammar-checking programs should be flagging any use of "accident", "accidentally", "unintended" and "unintentionally" whenever they appear in the same sentence as "Facebook" and are not within quotes.
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stemuk 7y ago
This seems like 'growth hacking' gone wrong. Facebook's growth has been loosing momentum for several year's now and it seems to me they are trying to make up for it by using every trick they have up their sleeves. They might want to overthink their motto 'Move fast and break things'.
pluma 7y ago
> How can you not mean to? It's my understanding that they used to do this entirely intentionally at one point via an "import contacts from mail" feature, then they dropped the feature and now when they added the "sign in with e-mail to verify your identity" feature someone reused the old code without being aware that it will also harvest the contacts and that they don't want that this time. It's the opposite of "privacy by default", basically.

javajosh 7y ago

>How can you not mean to? Indeed. Expect the next headline to be, "Facebook 'unintentionally failed to delete' 1.5M people's contacts, which they'd previously unintentionally uploaded".

coldcode 7y ago

So Facebook has no QA or Facebook has QA no one listens to? I imagine the latter.

cobookman 7y ago
Probably no qa. Lots of tech companies put qa on the developer

mannykannot 7y ago

> Pulling contacts and uploading them is not a passive action but takes active action. Action such as "accidentally" asking for email passwords. It is quite remarkable how these accidents line up just so. Grammar-checking programs should be flagging any use of "accident", "accidentally", "unintended" and "unintentionally" whenever they appear in the same sentence as "Facebook" and are not within quotes.

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stemuk 7y ago

This seems like 'growth hacking' gone wrong. Facebook's growth has been loosing momentum for several year's now and it seems to me they are trying to make up for it by using every trick they have up their sleeves. They might want to overthink their motto 'Move fast and break things'.

pluma 7y ago

> How can you not mean to? It's my understanding that they used to do this entirely intentionally at one point via an "import contacts from mail" feature, then they dropped the feature and now when they added the "sign in with e-mail to verify your identity" feature someone reused the old code without being aware that it will also harvest the contacts and that they don't want that this time. It's the opposite of "privacy by default", basically.