On: Facebook Unsocial Reader

[aseemk]

I've noticed it, but I'm still wary of that data entering Facebook at all.

[jrockway → aseemk]

Why?

[iamdave → jrockway]

Because they've consistently shown they can't be responsible with it. That's why.

[jrockway → iamdave]

I'm interested in specific examples or theoretical concerns, rather than "I said so." This is HN, not Reddit.

[anonymoushn → jrockway]

Facebook will disclose to Alice a list of all people who have Alice in their contact list on their phones (and use the Facebook phone app). I was told by Facebook engineers that this is working correctly.

HN discussion: http://hackerne.ws/item?id=3145857

There have been other things, but most of them were fixed rather than being called features.

[whatusername → anonymoushn]

As an FYI: the canonical URL is http://news.ycombinator.com or in this case: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3145857