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Re:Facebook will reveal who uploaded your contact info for a... by xg15 on Thursday February 07, 2019 @08:19AM (#19104996)
Not excusing their behavior, but could it be Facebook have not matched you using the email address you have given them but your real address, which they have found out via shadow profiles?

E.g., they know you'd like them to assume that [email protected] is your email address (and they do you the favor in all publicly visible parts of your profile), but they also see that most of the people in your friends list haven an entry for "[email protected]" in their address book, filed under your name. So they'll simply add both addresses as keys to your account.

Re:Facebook will reveal who uploaded your contact info for a... by thinkling on Thursday February 07, 2019 @02:33PM (#19107784)
Or are you using your real mobile number for 2-factor auth on Facebook?

You're probably also giving that out to businesses you have a relationship with. And most people don't have a second fake phone number to give out to avoid matching.

It's a bit like grocery store loyalty cards: you can give the grocery store bogus contact info when you sign up for one, but the first time you swipe a credit card to pay for your groceries, the store gets your name and a unique ID linked to you (the card #) that can be used to match your profile in (say) an Acxiom database.

Re:Facebook will reveal who uploaded your contact info for a... by pc86 on Thursday February 07, 2019 @09:24AM (#19105361)
With the pervasiveness and relatively well known existence of shadow profiles for people not on Facebook, it makes sense that Facebook would know some information about you that you haven't shared with it.

I'm curious why Facebook would link a shadow profile about you to your real profile though, even if it knew with relative certainty you were one in the same. I can see no benefit other than advertising (which doesn't really necessitate them telling you in this way) but it seems that it could pretty easily lead to the misunderstanding above where folks impugn nefarious motives to Facebook that aren't accurate.

Re:Facebook will reveal who uploaded your contact info for a... by throwaway53534 on Thursday February 07, 2019 @04:55PM (#19108963)
Your data is bought from other companies to do targeted advertising campaigns using your IP and location. Look at the newest post about Carta in the stocks reddit.