In fact, they are often accessed without our consent.

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As Kashmir wrote, the company could have used that technique to automatically segment users into Facebook Groups, but would likely have incurred the same privacy wrath that Google faced when its Google Buzz trick exposed who users were most often chatting with without their express consent.

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