Facebook's “People You May Know” recommends a relative a reporter didn't know she had, raising privacy questions; Facebook, citing privacy, won't offer details
Rebecca Porter and I were strangers, as far as I knew. Facebook, however, thought we might be connected. Tweets: @kashhill , @mattmcgee , and @zeynep Tweets: Kashmir Hill / @kashhill : Facebook recommended I friend a relative I didn't know existed http://gizmodo.com/... Matt McGee / @mattmcgee : As as adopted person, this is both exciting and creepy. But mostly creepy. I'll certainly be looking at Facebook's suggestions differently. http://twitter.com/... Zeynep Tufekci / @zeynep : Important story. Facebook unearths relative of man abondoned at birth. Few potential links aren't FB users. How did it do this? Won't tell. http://twitter.com/...