Being surprised about this is like hanging out with Jeffrey Dahmer and being surprised when he kills you and turns you into a lamp for his living room table. Privacy violation is not just something that happens at Meta. It is literally their business model. It's what they do. It therefore follows that they will do it in every possible way that they can get away with under the law, and possibly in some ways that they can't. If this is something that you dislike, the only sensible move is to close your account and delete the app.
Exactly, and there’s no wording I can imagine coming from the manager who requested this, which wouldn’t make it sound like the plain abuse that it is. But the guys who obeyed the manager and implemented it didn’t care. The mentality of parasites.