This is just creepy, and if facebook is doing it, Fedguv is doing it:
According to Fusion writer Kashmir Hill, she has been contacted recently by a psychiatrist named Lisa who discovered that Facebook had started recommending her own patients as potential friends.
The mental health professional, who lives in a small town, was surprised and troubled by this development, since she was an infrequent Facebook user and had not granted the app access to her phone contacts.
However, upon reviewing her Facebook profile, Lisa realized that she had shared her phone own number on the social media site.
The matter took a more disturbing turn when one of her patients, a snowboarder in his 30s, came to her saying that he had begun getting recommendations to ‘friend’ septuagenarians with whom he had nothing in common, and whom he never met.
The young man quickly came to the realization that the elderly strangers the app was suggesting to him as potential friends must have been some of Lisa’s other patients.
So facebook digs right into your phone contacts list, and correlates it with the massive list of recovery phone numbers they ask for to make sure you never get locked out of your account. And here I thought they wanted that phone number to make things convenient for me. Fortunately I always use two anonymous burners for online usage, but not everybody is as paranoid as they should be.
Imagine what our files in government look like, between the geographic logs, the bank info, the online activity, all the info on your phones, emails, phone calls, and even facial recognition in major cities rigged to the surveillance camera infrastructure.
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