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And yet in April Mark Zuckerberg told the US Congress that he wasn't "familiar" with shadow profiles[1]: Lujan: Facebook has detailed profiles on people who ha
by bogomipz 8y ago
And yet in April Mark Zuckerberg told the US Congress that he wasn't "familiar" with shadow profiles[1]:
Lujan: Facebook has detailed profiles on people who have never signed up for Facebook, yes or no?
Zuckerberg: Congressman, in general we collect data on people who have not signed up for Facebook for security purposes to prevent the kind of scraping you were just referring to [reverse searches based on public info like phone numbers].
Lujan: So these are called shadow profiles, is that what they’ve been referred to by some?
Zuckerberg: Congressman, I’m not, I’m not familiar with that.
[1] https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/11/facebook-shadow-profiles-hearing-lujan-zuckerberg/ https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/11/facebook-shadow-profiles-h...
- igravious 8y agoQuelle surprise. I bet plausible deniability is that they call them by a different name internally. Information brokers are so sketchy – it makes me so sad that the coolest tech companies are also some of the sketchiest. Do you remember back when the internet and web were all so full of promise? Instead we got tech behemoths that would put Standard Oil and AT&T in their day to shame.
- bogomipz 8y agoI wouldn't count FB to be among the "coolest" tech companies. Maybe 10 years ago they had some cachet but today it's just Mega Corp.