Re:Web Scrapers Claim to Sell Personal Data on Facebook User...
by imglorp on Monday October 04, 2021 @01:03PM
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Strong disagree.
> Name Email Location Gender Phone number User ID
It's never about one item of information released: it's about the aggregation and linking potential. Name/location/phone together form a pretty decent unique identifier. FB obviously gives you friends, interests, hangouts, and most importantly, photographs; none of which you had before.
Ater aggregating with other databases is when the harm comes.
> Name Email Location Gender Phone number User ID
It's never about one item of information released: it's about the aggregation and linking potential. Name/location/phone together form a pretty decent unique identifier. FB obviously gives you friends, interests, hangouts, and most importantly, photographs; none of which you had before.
Ater aggregating with other databases is when the harm comes.