Facebook Is Building Shadow Profiles of Non-Users

Posted by timothy on Tuesday October 18, 2011 @03:09AM from the list-of-users-who-don't-exist dept.

An anonymous reader writes "As noted previously, Max Schrems of Europe Versus Facebook has filed numerous complaints about Facebook's data collection practices. One complaint that has failed to draw much scrutiny regards Facebook's creation of Shadow Profiles. 'This is done by different functions that encourage users to hand personal data of other users and non-users to Facebook... (e.g. synchronizing mobile phones, importing personal data from e-mail providers, importing personal information from instant messaging services, sending invitations to friends or saving search queries when users search for other people on facebook.com). This means that even if you don't use it, you may already have a profile on Facebook.'"

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Re:Doh! by Abstrackt · 2011-10-18 04:02 · Score: 3, Funny

See this is why I don't use facebook..... er...damn it!
To be fair, it sounds more like Facebook is using you.

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Re:who's data by MikeB0Lton · 2011-10-18 04:19 · Score: 5, Funny

I'm MikeB0Lton too. We should have beers and stuff.
Re:who's data by ksd1337 · 2011-10-18 04:22 · Score: 3, Funny

Let's say you went to Slashdot High.
People visit Slashdot when they're high? That'd explain a lot of comments! ;-)