Facebook Is Giving Advertisers Access To Your Shadow Contact Information

Re:Facebook Is Giving Advertisers Access To Your Shadow Cont... by anonytrary on Thursday September 27, 2018 @03:39PM (#18087879)

> most people remain unaware that FB owns both WhatsApp and IG

I am not surprised. If you let Google autocomplete the search "is facebook o" for you, you'll find these autocomplete results in order:

  1. is facebook owned by google
  2. is facebook on roku
  3. is facebook over
  4. is facebook offline
  5. is facebook overvalued
    ...
  10. is facebook on its way out

Seriously, people? "Is Facebook owned by Google?". AFAIK most people have no idea what goes on with tech companies and they have no idea how much power they have and how they work with your data, or what personal data is even comprised of.

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Re:Facebook Is Giving Advertisers Access To Your Shadow Cont... by sandov on Thursday September 27, 2018 @04:53PM (#18088557)

True. The other day I was talking to my cousin and the conversation was something like:

— Facebook copied Snapchat's functionality on all their platforms.

— Instagram and Whatsapp copied it too.

— Yeah, that's what I meant by all their platforms.

— They're owned by Facebook?

She uses Instagram and Whatsapp everyday!

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Re:Facebook Is Giving Advertisers Access To Your Shadow Cont... by sacado2 on Friday September 28, 2018 @05:03AM (#18091940)

TBH, people don't really care about who owns what. We know it because it's our domain of expertise, but, for instance, I couldn't tell you if Uncle Ben's rice is owned by Nestlé, Unilever, Kraft Foods, Mars, Coca-Cola or some other food brand. Yet I eat rice several times a week.

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Re:Facebook Is Giving Advertisers Access To Your Shadow Cont... by snaky on Thursday September 27, 2018 @04:26PM (#18088265)

The best one is 'is facebook and twitter owned by the same person'.

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