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Facebook said Wednesday that it had "unintentionally downloaded" email contacts from 1.5 million new users since March 2016, according to a report.
New users have been asked to check their accounts with their email passwords, a process that in some cases has seen users' email contacts uploaded to Facebook, the company told Reuters in a statement.
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"We estimate that nearly 1.5 million email contacts have been downloaded. These contacts have not been shared with anyone and we are removing them, "said Facebook. The company said users whose contacts had been imported would be notified.
The company told Reuters that last month, it had stopped offering email password verification to users who were signing up for the first time.
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Facebook is under fire for privacy-related criticism, including a data scandal in which Cambridge Analytica has obtained personal information from 87 million Facebook users without their consent.
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