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> Loads more, like who I vote for, my boss’s name, and where all my family live.

So their selling other people's data too?




Asked mum and dad and they're all cool with telling people where they live. I live with them anyway.


Every time someone on FB shares a picture with other people in it they are doing just that.


TIL when I tag a friend on Facebook I'm also tagging their political beliefs, work history, favorite food, and venereal disease status.


> So their selling other people's data too?

I was answering that particular question. Either you didn't get it or you pretended to not get it, hard to tell the difference from here.


Well, yes. Say you tag a friend in a photo at a political fundraiser, protest, etc. Or you tag them posing by their company's logo, or at a booth their company is running at a trade show. The context of a photo matters, and FB can extract an awful lot of information out of seemingly-innocuous things these days.


So crazy it just might work




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