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It is creepy how much data Facebook has on users. I created a fake Facebook account using an email account not associated with my name and using a made up fant
by uslic001 8y ago
It is creepy how much data Facebook has on users. I created a fake Facebook account using an email account not associated with my name and using a made up fantasy name. I created it on a computer at a large hospital while logged into the computer with a coworker's credentials. Facebook immediately suggested all my family and friends upon creating the account. I still haven't figured out how they did it.
- jeromegv 8y agoMay be some of your friends had this email in their address book?
- uslic001 8y agoNope, one time throw away email account. Never used it before, never used it again.
- beagle3 8y agoDid you ever log in to FB with your own account on that machine? If you did, they leave a cookie there; even if no cookie, perhaps they used canvas fingerprinting (It's frightening how many websites do -- there's an about:config setting in Firefox that would let you know and block that). Did you have your phone with you, with the FB app? If you did, they likely have your exact location, and possibly also the exact location of the browser. A false positive costs them essentially nothing; So they'll always offer the 50-or so highest scoring matches to you. It's possible that those were matched to you because you had just logged out from the same public IP 5 minutes before (even if it was another machine on the network), and there were no other sources of information about that fake account. It is creepy. It should be illegal, but unforunately, it's legal -- and the governments are happy about it because it's often illegal for THEM to collect all this data, but it's not illegal to let FB collect it and ask them for a copy.
- uslic001 8y agoI did have my phone with me. Did not log into Facebook at all with my real account at the computer before making the fake account so no cookie.