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Not really. You granted permission for your friends to access the information. You did not give your friends permission to grant permission in accessing your information or share it directly.

Now Facebook may make a different statement etc and the rules of service, privacy can allow for this. But it is not a property that is transitive in general. And it is bad publicity. (I hope.)

I can be told a secret, I do not necessarily have the permission to share, for instance, what happened in the bachelor party last Saturday right?



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