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Facebook To Share Private Data With Politico

Posted by Soulskill on from the sharing-is-caring dept.

tomhudson writes "AllThingsD is reporting that Facebook has agreed to share users' private data with Politico. Quoting: 'Most notably, the Facebook-Politico data set will include Facebook users' private status messages and comments. Every post and comment — both public and private — by a U.S. user that mentions a presidential candidate's name will be fed through a sentiment analysis tool.' Yes, they claim it will be anonymized, but we've seen that doesn't really work in real life."

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  1. when will the FBI come for me? by alen · · Score: 5, Funny

    i LOVE our glorious President. he's the Dearest Leader i've ever had

    1. Re:when will the FBI come for me? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      He's also an internet expert.

  2. It's simple... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    We just have to troll the data by posting nothing but Ron Paul links on Facebook. /looks at Facebook feed

    See! Everyone's already doing it!

  3. Re:Google does the same by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    But would they properly aggregate posts about Mittens?

  4. Re:Google does the same by sakdoctor · · Score: 5, Funny

    I was hating facebook before it was cool to hate myspace.

  5. Re:Google does the same by Beardo+the+Bearded · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's okay, everybody hates themselves at least part of the time.

    Do you want a hug or some whiskey?

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