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throwaway78981 | 4 years ago | on: Web Scrapers Claim to Sell Personal Data on Facebook Users on a Hacker Forum

This isn't true. The phonebook we had had only Name, Phone number and very broad location. Also those days, phone number was just that - a phone number. Nowadays it's a unique identifier for lots and lots of things including government stuff. Some government stuff even uses it for authentication/authorization.

Also I guess user ID means it gives access to their fb profile page I guess? From there one can scrape pics etc (public ones).

throwaway78981 | 4 years ago | on: Web Scrapers Claim to Sell Personal Data on Facebook Users on a Hacker Forum

Some might laugh this off as 'oh it's just scraping'. But I remember reading some comments in HN that there are apps that can scan faces and pull personal info including where they live, work etc. So each leak uncovers a person little by little.

This vindicates the stance taken by Signal to not even collect metadata.

Edit: I mean surreptitiously scan the face of a stranger you see in public and the app will tell you about them. Don't know names of the apps.

throwaway78981 | 4 years ago | on: Firefox vs. Brave: Which is the better browser for you? – Mozilla

Some links supporting this view:

[1] https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters/issues/761

[2] https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters-ansible/issues/45

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18734999

[4] https://web.archive.org/web/20181221180137if_/https://twitte...

[5] https://web.archive.org/web/20181221231556if_/https://twitte...

[6] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27549604

[7] https://slate.com/technology/2014/04/brendan-eich-why-mozill...

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