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They scrape all of your contacts and create ghost profiles to better track connections of even people who do not use their services.

Apple does this too. Well, did - not sure if they still do.

> Apple does this too

This doesn't sound familiar. What case(s) are you referring to?

It was a discussion a while back I had with someone that used to work for them. Not sure how much of it was public.