> Every other app could ask for it as well. They really couldn't. Facebook benefits from network effects they've spent years building. You pour data into Faceb

> Every other app could ask for it as well. They really couldn't. Facebook benefits from network effects they've spent years building. You pour data into Facebook because your friends are there. Other apps would find the same data much harder to collect at scale. Regardless, this isn't a hypothetical could situation. Facebook is real. And Facebook does these things. More successfully than anyone else. And now they want to saddle up on your phone's most-used piece of UI. All that data, floating past that one crucial screen. Now. That's a big responsibility for a company with a less-than-stellar track record on privacy.