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Facebook: Yeah, we hoovered up 1.5 million email address books without permission. But it was an accident!

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Re: Here i fixed that for you

The number looks low - 1.5M new accounts in three years? - but it looks it happened only for people using specific mail systems (Business Insider lists Yandex and GMX), maybe those Facebook had no other way to slurp the data from. While this can justify the low number, it could also be a evidence it was deliberately included to access those data explicitly.

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