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Re:FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization by gray_-_wolf on Thursday December 10, 2020 @06:18AM (#25372456)
> It's not okay to allow a third party to access the data your friends have shared with you without your friends consenting.

Why? If they shared it with me, that should mean they trust me to decide to whom I delegate the access no? I could as well just screenshot it and post it to twitter, what does make the social graph so special?

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Re:FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization by nulbyte on Thursday December 10, 2020 @07:20AM (#25372891)
I was thinking the same thing. How many of us blindly save contact data to our phones or other PIM software, then back it up online to a Google, Apple, or Samsung service? Do they need my contacts' consent? If I were to ask my friends, "Is it okay if I back up your contact informarion to Samsung's online service?" they would think I was weird for asking.
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