> Courtesy of every idiot who (illegally) uploaded their addressbook, with my contacts in it, to the service.
I know your address is PII, but seriously it's illegal to upload that info to FB? The post office does this with your snail mail info, and anybody could pick up a discarded envelope at the dump, or see a forwarded e-mail message with your address in it.
I am not saying that people should be blithely uploading their address books, but is it illegal?
And, come to think of it: does google track the address graph of gmail users? They could do this entirely with envelope information (SMTP MAIL FROM and RCPT TO), though message headers would be a richer trove.
I know your address is PII, but seriously it's illegal to upload that info to FB? The post office does this with your snail mail info, and anybody could pick up a discarded envelope at the dump, or see a forwarded e-mail message with your address in it.
I am not saying that people should be blithely uploading their address books, but is it illegal?
And, come to think of it: does google track the address graph of gmail users? They could do this entirely with envelope information (SMTP MAIL FROM and RCPT TO), though message headers would be a richer trove.