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Monday, August 15, 2011

Facebook harvesting your smartphone address book - major #fail

As each day passes I come closer to cancelling my Facebook account. This one might just tip me over the edge. I am certainly removing it from my iPhone.

Try visiting https://www.facebook.com/friends/edit/?sk=phonebook as see what information you have unwittingly given Facebook. OK, this was not public, but are you happy that they have this data?

On the right hand side there appears to be a facility to request this data be removed.

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