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Re:Facebook Wanted Gizmodo to Kill Investigative Tool by vertexFarm on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @12:23PM (#17708011)
Awww they don't like it when you mine their data. Poor lil' guys.
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Re:Facebook Wanted Gizmodo to Kill Investigative Tool by aylmao on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @01:35PM (#17708704)
I mean, they're not really getting access to some secret Facebook data. They're getting access to the user's data, including their username/password.
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Re:Facebook Wanted Gizmodo to Kill Investigative Tool by jeromegv on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @02:18PM (#17709114)
Who is "they"? Gizmodo is not getting access to the user/password neither do they have access to the user data. Quote from the article: the information was stored on individual users’ computers; we weren’t collecting it centrally
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Re:Facebook Wanted Gizmodo to Kill Investigative Tool by vertexFarm on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @01:37PM (#17708726)
Since the stuff they're probing isn't included in the APIs, they gotta have some account info to provide insight into this behavior.
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