Facebook 'unintentionally uploaded' 1.5M people's email contacts without consent

Re:Facebook 'unintentionally uploaded' 1.5M people's email c... by nathan_long on Thursday April 18, 2019 @09:17AM (#19690745)

I don't recall ever hearing that Facebook made a mistake which decreased the amount of data they collected or their usage thereof. Can anyone provide an example?

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Re:Facebook 'unintentionally uploaded' 1.5M people's email c... by hhanesand on Thursday April 18, 2019 @09:58AM (#19691029)

I get what you’re getting at here, but I don’t think it would be reported in the general media as it’s not a privacy violation.

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Re:Facebook 'unintentionally uploaded' 1.5M people's email c... by jefftk on Thursday April 18, 2019 @10:58AM (#19691461)

I'm sure Facebook has had bugs that broke various forms of data collection, or missed data they could have collected. We wouldn't hear about it, but it would be surprising if it hadn't happened.

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