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There is no 21st century option to refuse public social media. As observed with Clearview AI, if you end up in someone's photo on a social media website you will be inadvertently added to a social and location-based graph. I believe Facebook does this internally, so if you have any friends or relatives using Facebook who uploads a picture of you, no matter how old, your social graph is present there.

And try as you may, so long as you have a phone number you will end up in someone's harvested contacts list.




the infamous shadow profiles that Zuckerberg tried to "deny" during congressional hearing

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16813659


This is called a “shadow” profile, I think.




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