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I'm not sure what the HN rules around reposting your own comment are, but:

From https://www.facebook.com/terms.php, item 2.3

When you use an application, the application may ask for your permission to access your content and information as well as content and information that others have shared with you. We require applications to respect your privacy, and your agreement with that application will control how the application can use, store, and transfer that content and information. (To learn more about Platform, including how you can control what information other people may share with applications, read our Data Policy and Platform Page.)



How can you give consent to share with a third party what I have shared privately with you? Just because the TOS says so doesn’t make you exposing my private Information consentful.

Look at the example of what LinkedIn and WhatsApp and all its ilk does: I don’t want to be on those platforms. But friends upload their address books all the time, so I’m fairly sure they all have a full view of my social connections. How and where did I agree to that? How can my friends meaningfully consent to that on my behalf?




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