83 million Facebook accounts are fakes and dupes

[heavenlyboy34]

Good for you.

I don't like anything this company does, from its creepy data sniffing, to turning information over to the cops, but that aside, the idea that this outfit was somehow worth +100 billion dollars was insanity.

+a bunch. Would you believe our friends eduardo and kiwi actually used their REAL personal info on that site? They've both shut down their profiles recently for personal reasons (i.e. ed doesn't want his ex spying on him), but that data is still out there on teh interwebs!

[Anti Federalist]

+a bunch. Would you believe our friends eduardo and kiwi actually used their REAL personal info on that site? They've both shut down their profiles recently for personal reasons (i.e. ed doesn't want his ex spying on him), but that data is still out there on teh interwebs!

SMH...

[talkingpointes]

Having a good troll account can always come in handy. Facebook makes it a little more difficult but time is everything. People will add and try to talk to some pretty pictures, even when they never answer back.

[tangent4ronpaul]

Misclassified accounts are personal profiles that have been made for companies, groups or pets. Those types of profiles (22.9 million) are allowed on Facebook, but they need to be created as Pages. Facebook estimates that 2.4% of its active accounts are these non-human personal accounts. These accounts can be converted into approved pages without losing information.

I wonder how many Ron Paul group accounts fall in this category.

"Facebook is the new Meetup"

Lets not do this again. It didn't work well.

-t

[heavenlyboy34]

SMH...

Ditto. It may even cost ed custody/visitation of his daughter if the wife's lawyer gets her way.

[Anti Federalist]

Ditto. It may even cost ed custody/visitation of his daughter if the wife's lawyer gets her way.

"On Facebook we have a really large commitment in general to finding and disabling false accounts," Facebook's chief security officer Joe Sullivan told CNN in a recent interview. "Our entire platform is based on people using their real identities."

What the hell is wrong with people?

[heavenlyboy34]

What the hell is wrong with people?

I'll be fucked if I know, brother. I was shocked to find how much personal info people just give away on FB when I made my artists' page. It used to take some effort to get women to tell you these things...now you just have to look them up on FB.

[RickyJ]

If Facebook does shut down your account, it says you can't create a new one without permission from the company.

LOL! They want to make money off of their users by selling their information so they can't stop new accounts from being created without permission unless they start banning IP addresses. Facebook is a joke. If they dare start charging users to post on facebook over 75% of users would leave. There is nothing stopping people from creating an account with a real life person's name that doesn't have a facebook and spamming with that account.

When you exist as an entity to sell private information about people then don't be surprised when people use that network to destroy your company. Facebook is crashing and burning, and I love it!

[deadfish]

Meh... this story is lame.

If they don't delete fake accounts they're damned. If they do delete fake accounts they're damned.

I can see the "FACEBOOK CENSORS RON PAUL ACCOUNTS!!!" threads spring up like crazy if they did delete accounts. How many fake Ron Paul supporter accounts are there? Lots, from my experience. Personally, I do not give a fuck, but people would be bitching twice as loud if they did start deleting fake accounts.

[Peace Piper]

(after ONE year as a "member") User's Facebook Data Request Produces 1222 Pg PDF on CD

Facebook apparently collects more data about yourself and your activities than you may realize.

24-year-old Facebook user Max Schrems of Vienna, Austria recently sent a formal request to the social network and asked for a copy of every piece of personal information the site has collected on him since he created an account a year ago. According to ThreatPost, EU Directive 95/46/EC (PDF) grants each person the right to access data relating to him/her in order to verify the accuracy of that data and the lawfulness of how long it's being used. What he eventually received was a CD packing a 1,222 page collection in a single PDF file.

To Schrems' surprise, much of the data he discovered to be retained in Facebook's records were previously believed to be deleted. These records included the times when Schrems logged in and out of Facebook, the times and content of every message sent and received, and an "accounting of every person and thing he’s ever liked, posted, poked, friended or recorded." Facebook kept records of friend requests, photos, employment and relationship statuses, and former or alternative names and email addresses.

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Facebook...ews-13529.html

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Index. These groups of data were disclosed by facebook (click for more details):
http://europe-v-facebook.org/EN/Data...data_pool.html

00. Target
00. Date Range
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01. About Me
02. Account End Date
03. Account Status History
04. Address
05. Alternate Name
06. Applications
07. Chat
08. Checkins
09. Connections
10. Credit Cards
11. Currency
12. Current City

13. Date of Birth
14. Education
15. E-Mails
16. Events
17. Family
18. Favourite Quotes
19. Friend Requests
20. Friends
21. Gender
22. Groups
23. Hometown
24. Last Location
25. Linked Accounts
26. Locale
27. Logins

28. Machines
29. Messages
30. Minifeed
31. Name
32. Name Changes
33. Networks
34. Notes
35. Notification Settings
36. Notifications
37. Password
38. Phone Numbers
39. Photos
40. Physical Tokens
41. Pokes
42. Political Views

43. Privacy Settings
44. Profile Blurb
45. Realtime Activities
46. Recent Activities
47. Registration Date
48. Relationship
49. Religious Views
50. Removed Friends
51. Screen Names
52. Shares
53. Status Updates
54. Vanity
55. Wallposts
56. Website
57. Work

Note: Facebook is storing even more data categories. This is the (current) list of all data: PDF (485 KB)
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What facebook knows about you


A couple of months ago the Austrian law student Max Schrems asked facebook to send him all their data stored about him. All Europeans have a right to do this. Because facebook is based in Dublin, Ireland. It took a while and then facebook sent Max a CD with 1222 PDF files. - Read more at http://www.taz.de/facebook-en

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Thanks Max Schrems!

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Even if one doesn't use farcebook, most people are being tracked via LSO cookies! Which are *not* deleted with standard "cookie deleters", and contain Much Much more info.

Tracking: It's the New American Way!