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The story is almost certainly untrue or a misunderstanding. Facebook has no reason to scrape individuals personal information and then forcefully update their F
by oldtownroad 3y ago
The story is almost certainly untrue or a misunderstanding. Facebook has no reason to scrape individuals personal information and then forcefully update their Facebook profile.
There are various processes at Meta that do require identification to be submitted and in some cases that information will be published. For example, to be verified on Instagram you must have your name be published. Likewise, certain Facebook pages must publish their operators identities.
Most likely the person in question submitted their identity documents to Facebook (perhaps their account got locked) and they didn’t realise they were agreeing to that information being put on their profile.
The concern is valid — Facebook has information users might not want public — but the cause isn’t nefarious. Facebook is not finding an anonymous sex workers identity and then intentionally outing them.
- 1970-01-01 3y ago>Facebook is not finding an anonymous sex workers identity and then intentionally outing them. They are? https://www.thewrap.com/facebook-sex-workers-outed/ https://www.thewrap.com/facebook-sex-workers-outed/
- pseudalopex 3y ago> Facebook has no reason to scrape individuals personal information and then forcefully update their Facebook profile. Collecting personal information is central to Facebook's business model. Facebook's policies mandate legal names. > Most likely the person in question submitted their identity documents to Facebook Most likely this person would remember that. > The concern is valid — Facebook has information users might not want public — but the cause isn’t nefarious. Surveillance capitalism and legal names policies are nefarious.
- warkdarrior 3y agoYou are free to not use Facebook and Instagram. I have not heard of a case where Meta deanonymized non-Facebook/non-Insta users.