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Charles Oliver | 1.22.2016 6:00 AM


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Germany's highest court has declared Facebook's friend finder feature to be an illegal form of advertising. The court said the feature, which allows Facebook users to send a request to join Facebook to those in their email list, harasses people who do not use Facebook.

Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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