Facebook suggested that I friend a person that I had met in a parking lothttps://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/9z1205/facebook_suggested_that_i_friend_a_person_that_i/?st=JORDJ5U5&sh=ef5fa5aa …
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Why do you need carrier tracking data? If two people happen to be in same geo for good amount of time (and no one was around there at the same time), then FB can recommend. Am I missing something?
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"Geo" is big, do you mean 4-foot AGPS resolved location? That is what it looks like, not just random people in the same city or tower area. ICYMI, https://twitter.com/vibronet/status/1065348195532722176 ….
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It's also possible for this kind of thing to happen occasionally entirely by coincidence: if Facebook suggests 5 random people from my city each day, then each day I have a 1/600,000 chance of getting Parking Lot Guy. Which means this would happen to 5 people a day 100% at random
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If only 2% of Facebook friend recommendations were effectively totally random, e.g. based on erroneous data, then it would happen to *somebody* here in Buenos Aires (3 million people) every 10 days. Strangely that's far below the Creepy Facebook Recommendation reddit rate we see.
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