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2019-04-18 Cyber

Facebook says it uploaded email contacts of up to 1.5 million users

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Posted by Besoeker 2019-04-18 02:25|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

I believe the term is 'incidental collection'.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-04-18 02:31|| 2019-04-18 02:31|| Front Page Top

#2 Last year, the company came under fire following revelations that Cambridge Analytica, a British political consulting firm....

Yes, it's right here. I wonder whom Ccambridge might have been working for ?

Posted by Besoeker 2019-04-18 02:43|| 2019-04-18 02:43|| Front Page Top

#3 Facebook says it uploaded email contacts of up to 1.5 million ~~users~~ suckers

FIFY. You are their commodity. You voluntarily hooked up to the Matrix. They just sell your information rather than use your energy.

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-04-18 07:23|| 2019-04-18 07:23|| Front Page Top

#4 What's the old saying, "If the item is free, then you are the product."

Posted by swksvolFF 2019-04-18 12:34|| 2019-04-18 12:34|| Front Page Top

#5 You voluntarily hooked up to the Matrix

No, the problem is that people who did voluntarily sign up had every email address in their contact list hoovered up, which means that many addresses (your, mine) may have been obtained without the adressees' knowledge.

That's the problem...

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-04-18 12:41|| 2019-04-18 12:41|| Front Page Top

#6 Handy dandy way of getting non user info.

Purely by accident, of course.

Posted by charger 2019-04-18 14:18|| 2019-04-18 14:18|| Front Page Top

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