Re:‘People You May Know’ helped Facebook grow exponentially
by brlewis on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @11:43PM
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>Where's the invasion of privacy?
In both cases.
Yours is understandable and forgivable. Charlie's privacy may have been violated, but it was a simple mistake.
But suppose you say to Alice, "Tell me all the people you know. I'll tell you which ones I know too." If you then write down that list and systematically start telling them about each other and that they have Alice as a mutual friend, then you're a privacy-invading jerk, and Alice was wrong to trust you.
In both cases.
Yours is understandable and forgivable. Charlie's privacy may have been violated, but it was a simple mistake.
But suppose you say to Alice, "Tell me all the people you know. I'll tell you which ones I know too." If you then write down that list and systematically start telling them about each other and that they have Alice as a mutual friend, then you're a privacy-invading jerk, and Alice was wrong to trust you.