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Re:Facebook Wanted Gizmodo to Kill Investigative Tool by jetrink on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @11:56AM (#17707764)
> heavens forbid an end user or journalist tries to learn something about Facebook

And more specifically, the tool is for learning what Facebook knows (or thinks it knows) about you.

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Re:Facebook Wanted Gizmodo to Kill Investigative Tool by orbitingpluto on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @01:29PM (#17708643)
... and which they are supposed to provide upon request.
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Re:Facebook Wanted Gizmodo to Kill Investigative Tool by swsieber on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @01:36PM (#17708711)
... to individual users. And individually, your data isn't worth much. It's the aggregate that surfaces the really interesting things.
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Re:Facebook Wanted Gizmodo to Kill Investigative Tool by __jal on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @01:45PM (#17708792)
> ... to individual users.

... Which is what this tool does.

And while I take your point about aggregate value, I personally have a great deal of interest in data about me.

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Re:Facebook Wanted Gizmodo to Kill Investigative Tool by rfinney on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @01:44PM (#17708778)
Wouldn't it be interesting to a finance firm, insurance company or potential employer?
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Re:Facebook Wanted Gizmodo to Kill Investigative Tool by jgalt212 on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @02:53PM (#17709455)
Yes, depending on the size of the loan a borrower would pay good money for such data on a single user.

That being said, a less nefarious use could be lender has a std mortgage rate of 4.25%, but if you give us a FB data dump, you can quality for a 4.00% rate.

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Re:Facebook Wanted Gizmodo to Kill Investigative Tool by baud147258 on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @04:46AM (#17714141)
> That being said, a less nefarious use could be lender has a std mortgage rate of 4.25%, but if you give us a FB data dump, you can quality for a 4.00% rate.

Or, with your FB, the bank realize you have an higher risk of defaulting/dying before paying the full mortgage, so they bump the rate to 5%

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