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Re:Facebook Figured Out My Family Secrets, and It Won't Tell... by coldtea on Saturday August 26, 2017 @12:44PM (#15106204)
>You are 100% correct about this. People have appeared on "People you may know" when I have absolutely zero connection to them other than I have chatted to the on What's App...

Well, isn't it obvious though? Facebook owns WhatsApp and has access to both "social graphs".

(Plus, it can also infer "people you may know" from people your friends in FB and Whatsapp know).

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Re:Facebook Figured Out My Family Secrets, and It Won't Tell... by nebabyte on Saturday August 26, 2017 @01:18PM (#15106343)
Did you think they were saying otherwise?
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Re:Facebook Figured Out My Family Secrets, and It Won't Tell... by coldtea on Saturday August 26, 2017 @01:22PM (#15106362)
No, I thought they presented it as surprising, when it's totally obvious.
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