people you may know
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Amazon And Facebook Reportedly Had A Secret Data-Sharing Agreement, And It Explains So Much
Back in 2015, a woman named Imy Santiago wrote an Amazon review of a novel that she had read and liked. Amazon immediately took the review down and told Santiago she had “violated its policies.” Santiago re-read her review, didn’t see anything objectionable about it, so she tried to post it again. “You’re not eligible…
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Facebook Wanted Us To Kill This Investigative Tool
Last year, we launched an investigation into how Facebook’s People You May Know tool makes its creepily accurate recommendations. By November, we had it mostly figured out: Facebook has nearly limitless access to all the phone numbers, email addresses, home addresses and social media handles most people on Earth have ever used. That, plus its…
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Facebook Swears It Won’t Use Its New Powerful Face Recognition To Suggest ‘People You May Know’
This morning, Facebook announced that it’s going to start scanning all the photos uploaded to the social network looking for your face, unless you opt out – or unless you are a European or Canadian, where privacy law actually limits what Facebook can do with people’s faces. The purpose of the scanning, according to Facebook,…
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Facebook Figured Out My Family Secrets, And It Won’t Tell Me How
Rebecca Porter and I were strangers, as far as I knew. Facebook, however, thought we might be connected. Her name popped up this winter on my list of “People You May Know”, the social network’s roster of potential new online friends for me.