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By: George

George — Tue, 27 Mar 2018 05:01:48 +0000

Yeah, but to be fair, the majority of FB users only provide information such as city/country of residual, pics of them while hanging out for coffee, and stuff like that. Not a lot of stuff that people can take advantage off.

By: Ageraluon

Ageraluon — Sun, 25 Mar 2018 12:03:35 +0000

I disagree to 1. The data was collected from
a) the app’s users, who agreed to give their data away (minor part) and
b) the users’ friends, who did not consent or were informed of the data use. The app collected their personal information anyway (largest part of the dataset by far).