The greatest trick that Facebook ever pulled was to convince users that they are the customer when in fact they are the product being sold
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On the other hand, FB users are all prequalified for NSA Secret clearance
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This should create some problems for FB, e.g. in Europe where the
#GDPR makes that illegal. Plus,#ColdCalling isn't allowed. Yet I'd never hand my number to FB. What however puzzled me is that they once asked me 'Is this your phone number?'. And it was, though listed nowhere. -
That's presumably the "other people's contact books" situation...
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Surely one can't be outraged each time anew, year after year, about the same perceived slight?
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So, even if you aren't on FB, and one of your less savvy friends shares their contacts with FB, they have and can keep your personal info?
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The problem may be the business model, but I'm not sure this is strong evidence of that. Most business models, good or bad, contain some incentive to behave unethically to squeeze more money out of that model.
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Facebook “is also using contact information you handed over for security purposes and contact information you didn’t hand over at all, but that was collected from other people’s contact books” to target people with ads.