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FB asks you explicitly if you want to upload your contacts as part of helping you find your friends. That's a far cry from "scraping your data everywhere on the
by yuliyp 6y ago
FB asks you explicitly if you want to upload your contacts as part of helping you find your friends. That's a far cry from "scraping your data everywhere on the internet" from the your grandparent post.
- monadic2 6y agoOff-hand I suspect your contact book is more valuable than virtually anything publicly available on you. It's also entirely unnecessary to building a lookup-by-email or lookup-by-phone. I'm going to go ahead and say it's a much more evil practice than scraping.
- pixl97 6y agoNot years ago they did not. Phones didn't even have security options to ask at that time.