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Re:WhatsApp co-founder tells everyone to delete Facebook by pvdebbe on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @03:30AM (#16636191)
Do you log in to AirBnB using Google credentials? Perhaps they use an undocumented feature to broadcast the dates to GCal without mail harvesting.
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Re:WhatsApp co-founder tells everyone to delete Facebook by ctchocula on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @03:36AM (#16636209)
Nope, using Facebook credentials. That's definitely a possibility.

Maybe I'm cynical, but whenever I see qualifiers around a verb I get suspicious. Something like "hey, we're not lying when we said we stopped scanning emails for ad purposes, but we are still scanning to improve other Google ecosystems tools like Calendar".

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Re:WhatsApp co-founder tells everyone to delete Facebook by distant_hat on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @06:00AM (#16636706)
They scan emails. I have had airline ticket reservations that my friends emailed to me added on my Calendar.
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Re:WhatsApp co-founder tells everyone to delete Facebook by pvdebbe on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @06:39AM (#16636862)
Yikes. That would prove it...
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Re:WhatsApp co-founder tells everyone to delete Facebook by icebraining on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @08:11AM (#16637310)
It's not exactly a secret: https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/6084018?co=GENIE....
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