Facebook scraped call, text message data for years from Android phones

Re:Facebook scraped call, text message data for years from A... by thaumasiotes on Sunday March 25, 2018 @03:20AM (#16671153)

What legal system are you thinking of? I don't really see myself getting in legal trouble for revealing someone's contact information to a third party. It's a pretty normal thing to do. If I knew your phone number, and somebody else asked me for it, what's stopping me from telling them?

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Re:Facebook scraped call, text message data for years from A... by dorgo on Sunday March 25, 2018 @03:46AM (#16671212)

Germany has privacy protection laws and a privacy protection officer warned that 99% of WhatsApp users act illegal by not asking their contacts for permission before giving WhatsApp access to their contact information.

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Re:Facebook scraped call, text message data for years from A... by thaumasiotes on Sunday March 25, 2018 @04:11AM (#16671271)

If I give your phone number to some guy I met in a bar, is that still fine?

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Re:Facebook scraped call, text message data for years from A... by Sylos on Sunday March 25, 2018 @04:33AM (#16671329)

If I don't sue you, yeah. But if you're not sure that I won't have a problem with it, you should better ask me in advance.

In your example, this sounds silly, but it's just not categorically different from examples where it doesn't, like say someone who stalks me asks you for my phone number, or a scam caller does.

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Re:Facebook scraped call, text message data for years from A... by harry8 on Sunday March 25, 2018 @09:53AM (#16672164)

is some person my psycho, violent ex?

Is some person a person I want to talk to?

Do you not know and are just hoping for the best without asking me?

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