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> also all the info from my friends They would only see the subset of what your friend shared, the set configured by its author as visible to friends of friend
by hunter2_ 3y ago
> also all the info from my friends
They would only see the subset of what your friend shared, the set configured by its author as visible to friends of friends, right?
- hn_throwaway_99 3y agoNo, IIRC this predates that entire permission model. "Friends of friends" today means just what it sounds like - my friends and all of their friends can see the data Iark that way. Back in the late 00s/early 10s when lots of "Facebook apps" were a bit of a craze (think Farmville), you could give an app maker permission to view your personal data and all of the data that you could see about your friends. This is how Cambridge Analytics was able to build profiles of 87 million Facebook users when only a few hundred thousand actually installed the "your digital life" app: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/17/cambridge-analytica-facebook-influence-us-election https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/17/cambridge-analy...