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Good. Didn't Facebook do the same thing? I don't remember if they were fined or not.



They did and were fined $5bn for privacy violations generally, of which one part was:

> In addition to these violations of its 2012 order, the FTC alleges that Facebook violated the FTC Act’s prohibition against deceptive practices when it told users it would collect their phone numbers to enable a security feature, but did not disclose that it also used those numbers for advertising purposes.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2019/07/ftc-i...




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