Linkedin selling contact information to Facebook

Re:Linkedin selling contact information to Facebook by mtmail on Friday August 05, 2016 @11:59AM (#12233317)

There are other options, e.g. proximity. Or your colleagues have added your email or phone number to their contacts which messenger/facebook can access. It's a creepy feature but Linkedin selling their network graph is too far fetched in my opinion.

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Re:Linkedin selling contact information to Facebook by seren on Friday August 05, 2016 @12:04PM (#12233356)

Or accessing Facebook from same IP address.

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Re:Linkedin selling contact information to Facebook by infopass on Friday August 05, 2016 @12:31PM (#12233620)

I thought about it. But it gets creepier. Former colleagues in different geographical locations who don't have my phone number/contact info but are only connected on linkedin appear in Facebook.

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Re:Linkedin selling contact information to Facebook by brazzledazzle on Friday August 05, 2016 @06:33PM (#12236146)

Does your company funnel every location through the same internet connection? And some people put their employer's name on Facebook. They could be determining from your colleagues in close proximity which company you work for and then connect you with any others they are aware of. Still creepy but perhaps not as scary.

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