Facebook says it uploaded email contacts of up to 1.5 million users

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Only new users since May 2016 affected.

Facebook says it uploaded email contacts of up to 1.5 million users
Facebook said on Wednesday it may have "unintentionally uploaded" email contacts of 1.5 million new users since May 2016, in what seems to be the latest privacy-related issue faced by the social media company. In March, Facebook had stopped offering email password verification as an option for ...

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