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by mischanix 2050 days ago
The more important takeaway from this article for me is that sites should be hashing the Facebook user ID, since it's often far more personally-identifiable information than an email address.
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Id is already hashed per-app from facebook's side
The article points out that this doesn't maintain privacy:

> I discovered that, even though the ID was unique to my FB-app, it was still possible to go to facebook.com/{id} and be redirected to the user’s FB-profile.