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Re:Cat People vs. Dog People by whateveracct on Monday August 08, 2016 @07:22PM (#12251489)
> To answer these questions, we dug our claws into aggregate, de-identified data from a sample of about 160,000 people in the United States who shared photos of cats or dogs (or both) on Facebook.

How is looking at aggregate, de-identified data an intrusion into people's private data? ?? ?

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Re:Cat People vs. Dog People by beefsack on Monday August 08, 2016 @08:07PM (#12251681)
This article is interesting, but it alludes to the level of profiling they do on their user-base, and that part is scary.
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Re:Cat People vs. Dog People by whateveracct on Wednesday August 10, 2016 @07:10PM (#12265331)
What is scary about using statistics on data your users knowingly give you?
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