I haven't heard of this happening to anybody, but it might be worth a read, it's pretty startling.
"How Facebook Outs Sex Workers" Leila suspects either that Facebook collected contact information from other apps on her phone or that it used location information, noticing that her and her clients’ smartphones were in the same place at the same time.
Search Newbie and General for "Avoid Social Media Like The Plague That It Is" for many other discussions of this topic. There are previous reports on TER of undesired outings via SM (social media).
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The nefarious tentacles of Facebook, Google+, Twitter, and others invade your lives (private and public) and will make connections that you never thought could exist, let alone be found. Their stated goals are TO CONNECT EVERYONE ON THE PLANET whether they want to be connected or not.
I haven't heard of this happening to anybody, but it might be worth a read, it's pretty startling.
"How Facebook Outs Sex Workers"
Leila suspects either that Facebook collected contact information from other apps on her phone or that it used location information, noticing that her and her clients’ smartphones were in the same place at the same time.
I don't do internet on my phone, just my laptop. I do my hobbymail with Yahoo on a different browser from my real life stuff like Hotmail, Facebook, Linked-In...etc.
Facebook takes people I have sent or recieved emails from and suggests I friend them...including a scumbag lawyer I had to deal with 10 years ago. When you accept terms of Facebook, you give up all right to privacy.
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So I was just texting a message, and the autofill suggested my TER handle as an option. WTF?? Gotta stop logging in from that device now! (How can I erase an autofill entry on an iphone??)