Another scandal: Facebook has collected 1.5 million users since 2016 without their permission

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Facebook has been collecting contacts for millions of new users for years, without their permission to carry out this process.
This dynamic is repeated on Facebook again and again, where user data is taken involuntarily or by mistake. This time is not the exception. According to a Business Insider report, the team discovered a strange fact in one of the checks Facebook requests users.

Another scandal: Facebook has collected 1.5 million users since 2016 without their permission

At the end of the verification process, a message appeared warning that the contacts loaded in the email address used for the registration were imported, without the user agreeing to the procedure. This dynamic began in 2016, reaching 1.5 million affected users.

A Facebook spokesman said this was done involuntarily, and now they are solving the problem. That is, Facebook has compiled contact lists for millions of users in the last 3 years, without any notice of this anomalies until the scandalous media rebounded.