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Not just that, but another story just broke about the sale of personal info on 1.5 billion FB users. Maybe this is just to cover the fact that they leaked info
by InitialLastName 5y ago
Not just that, but another story just broke about the sale of personal info on 1.5 billion FB users.
Maybe this is just to cover the fact that they leaked information about 20% of the earth's population?
- wallawe 5y ago> they leaked information about 20% of the earth's population This is straight up false. It was scrapers extracting data from public profiles. They already incorporate anti-scraping techniques, so there's not much they can do other than require every one to set their profile to private.
- InitialLastName 5y agoIf you don't collect the data in one place, there's no chance of leaking it. If they want to position themselves as the global phonebook, that's fine, but they should be open about that. Edit to add: If you aren't in the "gather and sell access to everybody's data" business, "private" is a sensible default setting for that information. On the other hand, if you're Facebook...
- JCharante 5y agoIt's kinda in the name isn't it? Phonebook... Facebook...
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