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Re:Facebook Sued by Investors Over Voter-Profile Harvesting by madeofpalk on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @08:16PM (#16634083)
Users that used the ‘CA’ mydigitallife app did consent, but the millions of other profiles that they were able to scrape in definitely didn’t consent.
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Re:Facebook Sued by Investors Over Voter-Profile Harvesting by 734786710934 on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @08:21PM (#16634120)
This gets to the debate around if you can consent when giving up information about your friends. For example, is it OK for someone to give a company access to their phone's address book when the people in it haven't consented themselves?
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Re:Facebook Sued by Investors Over Voter-Profile Harvesting by vuln on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @08:58PM (#16634329)
Reminds me of Facebook and LinkedIn shadow profiles.
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Re:Facebook Sued by Investors Over Voter-Profile Harvesting by madeofpalk on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @04:12AM (#16636340)
(which have been deemed illegal in some countries)
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