Facebook ‘unintentionally uploaded’ 1.5M people’s email contacts without consent

Facebook harvested the email contacts of 1.5 million users without their knowledge or consent when they opened their accounts. A Facebook spokesperson said before May 2016, it offered an option to verify a user’s account using their email password and voluntarily upload their contacts at the same time. While 1.5 million people’s contact books were directly harvested by Facebook, the total number of people whose contact information was improperly obtained by Facebook may well be in the dozens or even hundreds of millions, as people sometimes have hundreds of contacts stored on their email accounts.

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