[mikro2nd]

I never cared about what Facebook did with the data they collected from their users because I did NOT consent. I chose to remain off their platform. I am, however, reliably informed that they nevertheless /persist/ in gathering data about me -- presumably via friends and family and the FB apps they use, along with backend pattern and facial recognition and so on.

Any claim of theirs that I "consented" to them building, using and profiting by my foibles, relationships and habits is false. Not merely disingenuous; an outright lie.

[candiodari]

I think at this point, given that both Android and IOS make giving apps access to your contact list easy, you are in fact in these sorts of graph databases in a couple dozen organizations by now, courtesy of people you know. Facebook is not going to be the worst of them by a looooooooooooooong shot.

Pokemon Go, Skype (now Microsoft), Whatsapp, Snapchat, Line & WeChat if you live in Asia, Path, Yelp, Twitter, ... all the bigger internet companies [1]

And sadly there's the really cheesy ones like "Fantasy War Tactics" [2]. How many of your friends play that sort of crap ?

[1] https://venturebeat.com/2012/02/14/iphone-address-book/

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/AndroidGaming/comments/42ok29/why_w...

[411mrc]

Agreed, and in the case of call logs that may exist on me it seems very close to an illegal wiretap for the party never a part of Facebook (me).