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The existence of shadow profiles are pure speculation born out of the idea that just because FB can it will keep every bit of data. When in reality FB just lik
by rock_hard 7y ago
The existence of shadow profiles are pure speculation born out of the idea that just because FB can it will keep every bit of data.
When in reality FB just like any other well company has only stores what it needs as long as it needs to provide the services they do.
On that note I might add that most data (if it wasn’t to begin with) becomes meaningless after a few days
- elorant 7y agoSo how come when you first join FB it starts suggesting people to befriend who you already know? The only way to do that is by collecting information in the background for every living being. They aggregate everything and then they make correlations. By the time you decide to join they have a pretty good idea about people you might know. I can't see any other way for something like that to work.
- basch 7y agoAll your friends uploaded their phone books. When you signed up, facebook searched for your number. The nuance with a shadow profile basically comes down to when facebook compiles the relationship of your data into a single entry. People think if they do it ahead of time, its weird. People also seem to ignore that facebook BUYS a lot of data, just like many other marketing data conglomerate.
- darkpuma 7y ago> "The existence of shadow profiles are pure speculation" Zuckerberg admitted to congress that Facebook collects data on people who are not signed up for facebook (but implausibly denied being familiar with the term 'shadow profile'.)