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Not then give you access to half their customers’ personal info?

That’s a feature of the service that you opt into when you’re setting up your account. You’re not required to share anything with anyone, but a lot of people choose too. I actually was able to connect with a half-sibling that I knew I had, but didn’t know how to contact, via that system.

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psud@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
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- jimbo@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  But why do you need access to any of your half sibling’s personal data to do that?
  
  Nobody “needs” it, lol. People do it because it’s interesting to them.
  
  Why do you need access to everyone who opted in’s data to do that?
  
  Why does Facebook need to show you other people’s profiles? Why does Lemmy show me your profile and posts? It’s how the services work, and people choose to use them because they work that way.
  
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Hegar@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Hi! If you've used it, there's something I was curious about - how many people's names did it show you?

If 50%+ of the 14000 had the feature enabled, it was showing an average of 500-1000 "relatives". Was that what you saw? What degree of relatedness did they have?

I don't think that opting in changes a company's responsibility to not launch a massive, inevitable data security risk, but tbh I'm less interested in discussing who's to blame than I am in hearing more about your experience using the feature. Thanks in advance!

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- jimbo@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  This list shows 1500 people for me. I assume that’s just some arbitrary limit to the number of results. There’s significantly overlap in the relationship lists, so the number of relatives is less than the (140000.51500) that that math might indicate.
  
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