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madeofpalk
3006 days ago
Users that used the ‘CA’ mydigitallife app did consent, but the millions of other profiles that they were able to scrape in definitely didn’t consent.
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734786710934
3006 days ago
This gets to the debate around if you can consent when giving up information about your friends. For example, is it OK for someone to give a company access to their phone's address book when the people in it haven't consented themselves?
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vuln
3006 days ago
Reminds me of Facebook and LinkedIn shadow profiles.
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madeofpalk
3006 days ago
(which have been deemed illegal in some countries)
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