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Apparently there is a privacy

ocean-kat — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 18:25:10 +0000

In reply to Connections Between Social Media and E-mail

Apparently there is a privacy setting on facebook that allows your facebook page to be searched using your sign up e-mail. I doubt this existed when I signed up or I would have disabled it. Most likely at some point when I wasn't paying any attention to the facebook account, actually that's most of the time, they added functions and set them at a default level lower than I would have if I had been paying attention.

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Outlook respects your Facebook settings

We’re able to associate your Facebook account with email addresses that you have provided for that account based on your Facebook settings of who can look you up using the email address you provided.

Managing your Facebook look-up setting

Your Facebook setting of Who can look you up using the email address or phone number you provided controls whether other people, including those on Outlook, can find your public Facebook account by your email address or phone number on file with Facebook.

For more information on this setting, see the Facebook help page.

To block your public Facebook account from being found by Outlook and other services

If you change your Facebook setting for Who can look you up using the email address or phone number you provided, then only the group of people you select will be able to find your Facebook account by your email address or phone number. Here's how to set it:

Go to the Facebook privacy settings page.
Sign in, if you aren't already.
Next to the How You Connect, click Edit Settings.
From the dropdown menu next to Who can look you up using the email address or phone number you provided select Friends of Friends or Friends.
Click Done.

That presumes they're

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 13:47:54 +0000

In reply to The fact that they couldn't

That presumes they're actually focused on doing their jobs, rather than using our data for improper purposes.

Presumably tasers are a good idea when a cop or others are attacked by a 320-lb dude angry & hopped up on drugs.

Instead they get used on grandmas in a dispute about a seat at a ball game, or a guy passed out on a metro landing, or a 15-year-old girl in an argument with her mother or a pregnant woman who didn't sign her traffic ticket.

These are the same kind of vicious incompetents who occupy NSA - they just don't have any public scrutiny to wheel in their worst mistakes.

The fact that they couldn't

rmrd0000 — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 11:19:44 +0000

In reply to LinkedIn begs me all the time

The fact that they couldn't detect a spy within their own midst makes them less scary.

LinkedIn begs me all the time

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 06:53:03 +0000

In reply to Just saw your comment above.

LinkedIn begs me all the time to link everyone in my Gmail account, and shows me pictures of dozens of suggested ones, even though they're not connected and I don't use Gmail for LinkedIn.

I stopped following all the mechanisms of how they track, but forwarding just 1 HTML picture with a link to one of these sites gives them a ton of connections to work from - cut-and-paste or however. The use of cookies has expanded, and the sign-on rules for most mobile phones & services gives Google & Apple another ton of private tracking to abuse. Just trying to be "helpful", they mash up all your accounts & info & deliver it to their chugging churning Big Data servers to make proper recommendations for you and keep America's commerce mills going.

And forget about any "anonymous" service. Almost certainly the NSA tracks extra hard anyone using these services, and doubtlessly sucks all the data sent through them as the intelligence equivalent to high grade crack cocaine. "I have something to hide" is one of the signs they're looking for.

So sit back, open up and enjoy it.

Just saw your comment above.

Michael Wolraich — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 02:15:50 +0000

In reply to For this to be possible,

Just saw your comment above. I don't see how they could connect your facebook account without an email address from facebook.

For this to be possible,

Michael Wolraich — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 02:13:59 +0000

In reply to Connections Between Social Media and E-mail

For this to be possible, facebook must have shared your email address and photo with microsoft without your permission, a serious confidentiality violation if you ask me. Are you sure that you never allowed hotmail to import contacts or anything like that?

I googled around a bit and found this forum post about unfortunate cross-dressers who have been inadvertently outed by the hotmail change.

Odd that such a big deal is

NCD — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 00:12:15 +0000

In reply to Upsetting since this was done

Odd that such a big deal is made about gov't tracking international phone calls (while Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook acquire and sell every bit of data they can get on you with your help.... using your browsing, purchases, email, 'likes', location, banking etc etc).

Meanwhile, few have a problem with billionaires/Wall Street buying politicians and government policy, writing laws and making special deals with secret 'social welfare' tax free contributions at election time..

Upsetting since this was done

Richard Day — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 23:33:46 +0000

In reply to Connections Between Social Media and E-mail

Upsetting since this was done without my knowledge or consent. I wonder how many other sites I used that hotmail address to sign onto have also been searched to gather information about me.

There are some other related issues going on here.

I just spent two hours last night 'erasing' four? types of software that somehow snuck into my computer claiming that they were there to 'clean' my computer. And all this software did was screw up my hardware.

So I finish 'erasing' all of them and I go to bed forgetting to shut down my sound and this noble lady informs me that I have to contribute another fifty bucks or something to 'clean' my computer.

Corporate spying is going to have a hell of a lot more effect on us peasants than the damn government; although I am not letting the 'govment' off the hook!

I was thinking of doing a 'publication' blog. If you 'publish' a message all you need to do is communicate the same message to two people. That is just Black's Law Dictionary information.

We cannot have it both ways.

Most of us wish 'to be heard' and yet we are upset when 'they' discover what we are saying!

So I publish some blog about how important Batman Comics are to me and mine and some 19 year old figured out how to include me in some survey and now I get fifty emails a day concerning Batman Comics.

Capitalism at it's best, I guess!

I've been equally fastidious

ocean-kat — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 23:17:42 +0000

In reply to P.S. A Hotmail account is my

I've been equally fastidious about never using or connecting to facebook on any other site in any way, shape or form.

Apparently by default hotmail will search for a facebook account and a twitter account. I don't have twitter. They will download your public name, profile picture, "and other information" from either of those accounts and add at least some of them to your e-mails. They will do the same for any e-mails you receive. It does seem as though this can be turned off and if I had voluntarily upgraded and checked the settings I could have opted out.

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What information is shared between Outlook and Facebook or Twitter?

To provide you with an enriched email experience, we use encrypted email addresses to search for accounts on Facebook and Twitter. We only use the public names, profile pictures, updates, Tweets, and other information we receive from Facebook or Twitter

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No need to worry since they "only use the public names, profile pictures, updates, Tweets, and other information." Yes, its very specifically limited to "other information."

P.S. A Hotmail account is my

artappraiser — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 22:13:31 +0000

In reply to Connections Between Social Media and E-mail

P.S. A Hotmail account is my main email, since the 90's. I did change to Outlook early so I could grab the same name under Outlook.com. Mho, most of the Outlook.com changes suck, I liked the old system better. (Though the ability to do "sweep" deletions is great.) It wasn't just you, the deadline just passed and they transferred everyone on Hotmail to Outlook. Microsoft is one company that seems determined to keep it's branding intact, that of always making everything more complicated

Like you, I have a very slim Facebook account that I have only rarely logged into. Unlike you, it is registered with the Hotmail account. Unlike you, I have not had any linkage between the two. Maybe what happened to you was a result of leaving the transfer process up to Microsoft? It's possible when I added the Outlook ability that I was given choices of settings, I don't remember. I do plan to investigate settings more, as I really don't like how it conglomerates strings of related emails rather than keeping them separate....maddening....

One thing I have been very fastidious about is that I have refused to register anyplace through Facebook, and it goes without saying then that I don't do Facebook "likes." If you've done either, that might be where the linkage comes from?