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		nontoxyc on Nov 22, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Personal and social information of 1.2B people dis... Facebook has a lot of personal information about you even if you have never had a Facebook account. For example: your GPS location data, approximate age, gender, ethnicity.... Welcome to the future komrade. Sadly, it's not a matter of just "not giving them" your location data. Your devices supply it.

mixmastamyk on Nov 22, 2019 [–]

And your friends too. I dutifully kept a new number out of FB until a friend messaged me with, is this your number right? Xxx-xxx-xxx. They can also tag you and auto tag you through face recognition.

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