Re:Facebook’s Clear History privacy feature is still months ...
by isostatic on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @12:07PM
(#18717148)
Yup, it's in a big spreadsheet. Column A is the default sort, and that's Date/Time. Column B is the user, and they don't sort by column B, that would be crazy!
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Re:Facebook’s Clear History privacy feature is still months ...
by dictum on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @12:29PM
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AUDITOR: So that's how you store these visits... wait, why are the values next to the URLs so... strange?
ALICE: Column A is the URL. Column B is just a token we use to ensure it's a valid entry, and it's the default sort. As you can see, it's gibberish. No personally identifiable information.
JANE: We deriv...
[JAKE hits JANE with his elbow, discreetly]
JAKE: We derive great pleasure from helping people connect with each other, is what Jane's saying. And that's something we truly believe in.
Re:Facebook’s Clear History privacy feature is still months ...
by jlarocco on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @12:40PM
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You would think they'd know how to access the data by now given all of their experience using it to target ads to specific users...
Re:Facebook’s Clear History privacy feature is still months ...
by jhenkens on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @02:27PM
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The amount of data they collect surely they stream much of it directly to log files. Those log files are not by user. You try reading and rewriting petabytes of data out of S3 to remove lines matching a specified ID.