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They settled a class action lawsuite I think, but if I remember there was some form of consent involved that emails will be leveraged (probably not obvious eith
by kerng 8y ago
They settled a class action lawsuite I think, but if I remember there was some form of consent involved that emails will be leveraged (probably not obvious either, and shouldn't be done). In Facebook's case it has clearly been misleading, possibly intentionally multiple times now (email, phone numbers,...).
- zamalek 8y agoI didn't like it (which is why they didn't get my damned password), but they were pretty open about what they planned to do with your credentials. The problem isn't how open they are, it's that most people don't understand what the harvesting means. Facebook could have asked for the sacrifice of the firstborn and people would have snapped it up on the prospect of a few likes on their fake online alterego. It's human nature and the HN echo chamber exists far outside that normalcy. Most people don't "get it" (through no fault of their own) and that's why it's dangerous [edit] and effective.
- simion314 8y ago>I didn't like it (which is why they didn't get my damned password), but they were pretty open about what they planned to do with your credentials. From what I read FB had a "bug" where the feature was not removed properly, so the text about harvesting was removed but by "mistake" the harvesting code was left running.
- pluma 8y agoI think what happened was that they had an "import friends from your email contacts" feature in the past and the code was reused for "verify your identity via email" but they didn't realise the code would still also upload the email contacts. At least that's the story I've heard about why this was an "honest mistake".