Most Facebook Users Should Assume Their Public Info Has Been Scraped

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Mark Zuckerberg says users that had their profile set to allow others to search for them by email address or phone number have had that information scraped by others. Because of this Facebook has seen malicious actors scraping up this information (Warning auto play video) and they have turned off this feature. Thanks for all the help Facebook.

In the call with media Wednesday, Zuckerberg clarified further. "It is reasonable to expect... someone has accessed your information in this way," he said.
 
Anyone who has used Facebook can have zero expectations of privacy. The sole function of Facebook is to exploit people by harvesting their data. This should be crystal clear to anyone who has more than quarter of a brain.
 
Seeing how many of my personal acquaintances openly post the most embarrassing details about themselves and have public back-and-forth spats with their spouses and exes, I don't think many would care about being scraped.

I just don't think people care much about privacy these days, and as an innately private person, I find that highly distressing. It leaves me reluctant to open up to friends and family about anything, because while I might not post my personal details on Facebook, they may take it upon themselves to do so for me, and think not a thing of it.
 
Loose Nut said:
Most Computer Users Should Assume Their Public Info Has Been Scraped
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There is public info and public info. How many people post questionable pictures of themselves to social media? How many post political opinions on their own name? How many link their work place to their information, linking their personal postings also to the company?

Social media users are really just inconceivably naive. Nobody should touch any social media that identifies your real person.
 
If you have entered it to a website assume that data has been sold to anybody willing to pay for it.
 
B00nie said:
Anyone who has used Facebook can have zero expectations of privacy
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that one has always been a real WTF to me.. how anyone could really think that something they are posting to the open world, could think its "private"

it has been the source of numerous deep belly laughs though, to me at least.
 
B00nie said:
Anyone who has used Facebook can have zero expectations of privacy. The sole function of Facebook is to exploit people by harvesting their data. This should be crystal clear to anyone who has more than quarter of a brain.
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A former Exec from Facebook even said that, I can't remember but he pretty much said it was created to exploit users based on their data they entered, likes and what not.

Edit: he talked mainly about the repercussions that were created but here is basically what he feels about it now.
http://www.collective-evolution.com...cial-media-giant-thats-ripping-society-apart/

I completely agree with the guy.
 
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I have never had any inclination to play in a cesspool, so I never thought of signing up. ;)
 
SomeoneElse said:
A former Exec from Facebook even said that, I can't remember but he pretty much said it was created to exploit users based on their data they entered, likes and what not.

Edit: he talked mainly about the repercussions that were created but here is basically what he feels about it now.
http://www.collective-evolution.com...cial-media-giant-thats-ripping-society-apart/

I completely agree with the guy.
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and there's this from a handful of days ago - https://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanmac/gr...efended-data?utm_term=.xbow0VoD53#.wv7p1aR97M
 
people should assume that all their info, no matter where they gave it up, is not private and has been scraped, sold, etc.
 
And more news today that Facebook has been working with patient medical records to try and link up people on FB to their medical records to "improve patient care".

Why can't it just be a site where people post cat pictures and complain about their in-laws. FB has gotten so bloated it has lost complete touch with reality and their original point of existing. Glad I never signed up.
 
Who here would want a "Punch Zuckerdouche in his mash potato face" just once. I'd stand in line. Thankfully I don't really have too much to mine from my FB account, but still.
 
I don't quite understand why all these recent Facebook stories are news to anyone. I honestly thought this was all common knowledge, guess not.

Love them or hate them, this smells of a corporate smear campaign.
 
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