Comment by Refreeze5224

If I found an application by some random developer, whose purpose was completely unrelated, doing this, I would categorize it as malware, or spyware at the very least.

By Facebook does it, and it's a "miscommunication." I have personally considered them a surveillance, and therefore spyware company, for years. I hope more people will realize it. Especially all people right here on HN who work for Facebook, and Google as well. Please realize what you're doing is wrong, and damaging, and that you should work somewhere else doing something less objectively harmful.