Ask HN: Does Facebook sift through your image cache?

Re:Ask HN: Does Facebook sift through your image cache? by seiji on Saturday October 17, 2015 @02:06PM (#10405389)

Plus, you never know how many people get their entire address book stolen by Facebook without consent (or a drive-by "can facebook app access your contacts?" button that immediately uploads your entire address book back to the mothership; or a linkedin connection/scraping or call record logging on android or half a dozen other aggregate info dump methods people aren't privy to).

I'm surprised facebook hasn't tried to create their own spyware-infused browser and computer platform yet. Millions of facebook users think "facebook" is the entire Internet anyway. Not far removed from just giving over your entire life to them.

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Re:Ask HN: Does Facebook sift through your image cache? by beenpoor on Saturday October 17, 2015 @04:39PM (#10405965)

The more I think the more bizzare it was. The reason being, we know each other by synthetic names in a forum (and let me just say anonymity was expected from both of us). So the only way I can think of is somehow the synthetic string/name matched on both of our data somehow like you are describing.

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