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Re:Facebook collecting people's data even when accounts are ... by wackro on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @08:10PM (#29817735)
People allowing the app to access their contacts presumably. Contacts can contain email addresses as well as phone numbers.
Re:Facebook collecting people's data even when accounts are ... by allears on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @08:20PM (#29817830)
I'm pretty sure FB accessed the contact lists of some of my friends. I've never installed the app or otherwise interacted with FB.

I also know that one of my so-called "friends" posted a group picture with me in it, and labeled the people in the picture. At one point I did a search to see what information was out there about myself, and that picture popped up associated with my name.

I guess that I'm just another casualty of the information age, in spite of my best efforts.

Re:Facebook collecting people's data even when accounts are ... by nerdponx on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @08:30PM (#29817917)
I have resorted to actively asking people to not tag me in photos.
Re:Facebook collecting people's data even when accounts are ... by JKCalhoun on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @11:19PM (#29819339)
We reach.

But with ML facial recognition I figure the jig is up.

Re:Facebook collecting people's data even when accounts are ... by politician on Thursday January 06, 2022 @12:09AM (#29819690)
Re:Facebook collecting people's data even when accounts are ... by vintermann on Thursday January 06, 2022 @02:13AM (#29820384)
Clearview is notable only for their brazenness. It's easy to code up face recognition these days if you have the data, and again, it's brazenness (in scraping) which is Clearview's main advantage here.

In general, AI that's hawked at CEO types and police is mostly snake oil, inferior to what you can make yourself if you read hackernews and are willing to dive into Arxiv.

Re:Facebook collecting people's data even when accounts are ... by junon on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @09:25PM (#29818362)
I know someone that did the initial internal report to Apple about this years ago. This is exactly what it is. They use your contact data to create what are essentially graph nodes in a database, even if you've never signed up.

Not sure how much of that has changed since then. But contact data is by far the most valuable mined from phones. Facebook is no exception.

Re:Facebook collecting people's data even when accounts are ... by Jansen312 on Thursday January 06, 2022 @12:01AM (#29819625)
Probably FB has enough tech and data to recreate a virtual you as NPC in metaverse.
Re:Facebook collecting people's data even when accounts are ... by politician on Thursday January 06, 2022 @12:11AM (#29819696)
"'Login with Facebook' today to claim your NPC in the metaverse" /shivers
Re:Facebook collecting people's data even when accounts are ... by dessant on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @08:21PM (#29817834)
They do the same in WhatsApp, the app collects your personal data through your aquintances, and they hold your social graph even if you're not a WhatsApp user.
Re:Facebook collecting people's data even when accounts are ... by Nextgrid on Thursday January 06, 2022 @04:59AM (#29821517)
There's a reason Facebook paid billions for an essentially free (and ad-free) chat app and chose to leave it that way.
Re:Facebook collecting people's data even when accounts are ... by rvense on Thursday January 06, 2022 @05:40AM (#29821893)
Didn't LinkedIn once (ten years ago) ask for your email login credentials when you signed up?

I know it suggested my ex-girlfriend as a connection when I opened my account, five years after we'd last talked.