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I'm having trouble determining what they discovered here. 1) They bought 1 million dating profiles 2) They traced it back to Match.com and Plenty of Fish That'
by unreal37 8y ago
I'm having trouble determining what they discovered here.
1) They bought 1 million dating profiles
2) They traced it back to Match.com and Plenty of Fish
That's it? That's the news? Where's the meat? What am I missing?
- munchbunny 8y agoYou can buy a large number of completely deanonymized profiles that tie together photos, names, sexual orientation, etc. (those were what stuck out to me) for a couple hundred bucks. Usually you have to go through the back door to get this stuff. Even advertising companies go further than this to anonymize you. This is a pretty blatant privacy violation. If the headline was just "Match.com sites are sharing your profile info between them" this would smell bad but wouldn't be a big deal.