On further thought, it's possible I jumped the gun on this and that my phone contacts weren't actually taken without consent- my memory is imperfect.
That said, my opinion on facebook's attitude towards me and my privacy is unchanged. It's easy to get jumpy when a company disregards your privacy at every turn. Had this been on google (for example), I'm pretty sure I would not have jumped so quickly to what was probably an incorrect conclusion. But it was fb, who has repeatedly disregarded my wishes and abused my trust to the point where I literally treat everything I put on it as public.
That said, my opinion on facebook's attitude towards me and my privacy is unchanged. It's easy to get jumpy when a company disregards your privacy at every turn. Had this been on google (for example), I'm pretty sure I would not have jumped so quickly to what was probably an incorrect conclusion. But it was fb, who has repeatedly disregarded my wishes and abused my trust to the point where I literally treat everything I put on it as public.