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>3. Most importantly, what Google is insisting on is completely insane.

Facebook can figure out who people know. They don't need to use facebook. Their friends' contact list is enough to construct a semblance of their social circle.

So the repercussions isn't limited to that person. They are implicating their friends' privacy (no matter how minor) to the very anti-consumer-privacy fronted company Facebook.



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