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Sorry... catching bad actors you say, Buzzfeed? This feature was MORE THAN LIKELY USED BY BAD ACTORS IN PARTICULAR to do considerable physical harm to innocent
by mindcrash 7y ago
Sorry... catching bad actors you say, Buzzfeed?
This feature was MORE THAN LIKELY USED BY BAD ACTORS IN PARTICULAR to do considerable physical harm to innocent people. For example it was possible to plug the following query into Graph Search and GET ACTUAL RESULTS BACK:
"Find all men with a sexual preference for other men within Teheran, Iran"
Now combine the knowledge you could enter that query with the terrible privacy tools and defaults (designed that way for a reason, by the way) on Facebook. If your mind is exploding imagine mine the day I've put things together.
(And you could replace Iran with any other Islamic country too).
And this was more than likely known by all people involved from the get go. That no human rights - or gay rights - organisation with considerable amounts of power EVER (because this tool has been in production for several years) complained to Facebook for releasing a tool which could so much harm to so many people is beyond me.