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I don't have Facebook nor Instagram, but my partner does and so does my siblings, parents and cousins.

Photos of me undoubtedly exist on their platform, with my name as well.

Not sure I am ok with random people instantly knowing who I am and who my relatives are.

I don't upload myself or my relatives on social media.

Pictures of me undoubtedly exist online, but they weren't uploaded by me.

There is this old concept on facebook called "tagging faces". Someone who taken pictures of you has tagged it allready, mostly not just one person so fb probably has pretty good biometrics of your and my face. They scrape contact lists as well and other grey patterns to obtain your contact info. It is depressing how for each privacy activist there's dozens of useful idiots who will tag you and publish your phone number on fb in spite of you not wanting them to feed surveillance systems.

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