Friday, February 4, 2011

‘Dating’ Site Imports 250,000 Facebook Profiles, Without Permission

<A target="_blank" href="http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/02/facebook-dating/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Index+3+%28Top+Stories+2%29%29">Lovely-Faces.com launched this week with more than 200,000 names</A> and photos of real people. How did they do it? They scraped Facebook for publicly available data without asking permission.

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