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Re:Thousands of Facebook internal documents and emails publi... by ummonk on Thursday November 07, 2019 @03:07PM (#21476810)
There was a time when people moving to a new place would voluntarily list their names, phone number, and residential address in a public directory.

We have lost a lot of privacy in recent decades but some expectations have actually changed towards more privacy.

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Re:Thousands of Facebook internal documents and emails publi... by walrus01 on Thursday November 07, 2019 @03:22PM (#21476910)
Well, there was also a time when the SS7/PSTN phone network was the only way to get in contact with people quickly. And by "quickly", I mean that almost nobody carried a cellphone, so leave a message on their cassette tape based answering machine if they're not home.

What's interesting to me now is how blithely people give up a lot of their personal privacy to random social media companies.

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