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Misleading title but scary nonetheless. It's not my complete phonebook... not even close. But it does have numbers of friends who aren't in my phone (which is useful and possibly OK considering they added me as friends).

Nevertheless i never explicitly opted into this which is bad.

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It is just showing a list of friends that have put their phone numbers in their profile. For me, it's a list of about 20% of my friends. Certainly not contacts from my phone. I checked my phone and I had never turned on "Contact Sync."

I don't know what else someone could think "Contact Sync" does. But yes, if they ever turned that on automatically, for shame. I don't see any evidence that they did.

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