@daringfireball The relationship worked in the opposite direction, though to the same effect in terms of privacy, in Mountain Lion and iOS 6 (and in some unknown to me number of ensuing versions) in which Contacts was bolstering its utility through interfacing with a social media site—Facebook—rather than the other way around. It pulled down profile pics. To this day I have them in my Contacts, fossilized records of profile pictures from whenever that now defunct feature last synced.