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Comment by Nextgrid

As much as I hate Facebook, I can't really blame them for someone scraping data users decided to share publicly. When you publish data online available publicly it's normal and expected that someone can make a copy of it, either through manual data-entry or automated scraping.

The only question here is how were emails & phone numbers obtained and whether users were made aware that they would be available publicly.

parent Nextgrid 6 years ago

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