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wraith808:
Another, is that someone else may have given them access to their contact list, and you may be on it.

Initially, that person would be given the opportunity to add or invite you, first, but if they don't, you might be offered the opportunity, later on, to add them. The fact that there is a relationship between the 2 of you, has already been established through their email contact list, and the site now knows this.
-app103 (March 12, 2013, 11:43 AM)
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Thanks!  I never thought of it that way... and yes, it's pretty underhanded.

And that's about as good as it gets if you're going to participate at all. I have the smallest web profile and presence (by design) of anybody I know. And even then, I wind up in things without my knowledge or consent.
-40hz (March 12, 2013, 02:15 PM)
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Yeah, I know you're right.  But it's still pretty jarring.  Unfortunately, there are legitimate things that I want to do in my private life that require my real name, and that's where the cracks start to show.

*sigh*

40hz:
Yeah, I know you're right.  But it's still pretty jarring.  Unfortunately, there are legitimate things that I want to do in my private life that require my real name, and that's where the cracks start to show.

*sigh*
-wraith808 (March 12, 2013, 02:20 PM)
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I hear and am sighing right along with you, Bro. Truly I am.... :-\

TaoPhoenix:
Best to just do what you can and not worry about it too much. Because short of setting up an alternate identity - and using it exclusively from day one - there's no longer much hope of being completely invisible online any more. And that's not something that's ever going to change short of an infocalypse. And I don't think many of us would welcome the chance to experience something like that.
-40hz (March 12, 2013, 02:15 PM)
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And even that alternate identity isn't good enough, because on places like Facebook other people will tag you anyway under your old name, as well as posting resumes looking for jobs. (Going a little tinfoil hat, I still think Apple sold my info to Facebook, and I hate both companies enough to believe it, until ironclad proof emerges otherwise.)

In some ways I welcome the *after effects* (after the nuclear grade pain!!  :o  :'(  ) because that might finally cause a public uprising to put severe privacy protections in place. (Fun Case Scenario: we all get to wear designer hoodies or something to protect our faces, and ID ourselves by number or something.)

An Info Apocalypse would be something like a Nuclear Bradley Manning - suppose *every web visit by anyone, ever, showed up all at once. We're only playing games because "this guy posted a drunk pic on Facebook, that guy said something on twitter." Wait until the head of the family values org is found to be a porn addict or something. Maybe HR somewhere faked their own resume back in the day. A cop might be an ex felon. Everything. By everyone. Ever. Smashed so far into the net it will never be erased.

THEN we might take privacy seriously. But not before.

40hz:
THEN we might take privacy seriously. But not before.
-TaoPhoenix (March 12, 2013, 04:37 PM)
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Or maybe even not at all seriously any more - we'll just start believing whatever we want to believe about anything.

Oh...wait...we do that already, don't we? ;D

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p.s. regarding tinfoil hats:

Don't be too hard on yourself. There was a time up until a single incident a couple of years ago where you'd find less than a dozen hits on me. And of that number, maybe six or seven actually were me.

Then my lovely alma mater put my name and old home address in their online alumni directory without my permission. I had even sent them an e-mail specifically saying they did not have my permission to do so. Ever since then I'm considerably less hard to Google. You'll now get 240 or so hits, of which about 80% are about me. And the only thing that changed in anything I had been doing up until that point was my alumini listing.

So it's not as crazy as you may think. It only takes one. Especially when the information gets shared or is readily accessible to somebody who uses it for some "business" purpose. (If I get one more 'affinity group' offer for investment advice or insurance I'm gonna scream!  :-\ ;D)

Tinman57:
  I was installing commercial software several years back.  The first window to pop up was the EULA.  Unlike most people, I read these things for good reason.  I found buried in the EULA a blurb that stated you give them the right to copy your address book, then went on to say what they would use it for; To sync with your online address book AND to send information (spam) to your contacts.  I had to do some fancy hacking to keep that from happening, which by law would have been illegal.  Yeah, illegal for me to stop them from spamming my friends, but not for them to snatch my address book.   >:(

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