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Data Firm Leaks 48 Million User Profiles it Scraped From Facebook, LinkedIn, Others (zdnet.com)
Zack Whittaker, reporting for ZDNet: A little-known data firm was able to build 48 million personal profiles, combining data from sites and social networks like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Zillow, among others -- without the users' knowledge or consent. Localblox, a Bellevue, Wash.-based firm, says it "automatically crawls, discovers, extracts, indexes, maps and augments data in a variety of formats from the web and from exchange networks." Since its founding in 2010, the company has focused its collection on publicly accessible data sources, like social networks Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, and real estate site Zillow to name a few, to produce profiles.
But earlier this year, the company left a massive store of profile data on a public but unlisted Amazon S3 storage bucket without a password, allowing anyone to download its contents. The bucket, labeled "lbdumps," contained a file that unpacked to a single file over 1.2 terabytes in size. The file listed 48 million individual records, scraped from public profiles, consolidated, then stitched together.
But earlier this year, the company left a massive store of profile data on a public but unlisted Amazon S3 storage bucket without a password, allowing anyone to download its contents. The bucket, labeled "lbdumps," contained a file that unpacked to a single file over 1.2 terabytes in size. The file listed 48 million individual records, scraped from public profiles, consolidated, then stitched together.
Here is their publicly available personal info.
http://www.localblox.com/
George Fink - CEO/Marketer/Scumbag: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ge...
Sabira Arefin - Founder/Entrepreneur(lol)/Scumbag: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sa...
Colby Atwood - President/Marketer/Scumbag: https://www.linkedin.com/in/co...
Ashfaq Rahman - Chief Data Scientist/Scumbag: https://www.linkedin.com/in/as...
The court found that information alone without a minimum of original creativity cannot be protected by copyright. In the case appealed, Feist had copied information from Rural's telephone listings to include in its own, after Rural had refused to license the information. Rural sued for copyright infringement. The Court ruled that information contained in Rural's phone directory was not copyrightable and that therefore no infringement existed.
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A Canadian kid gets charged with "exploiting a vulnerability", (i.e. incrementing a number in a URL), and faces ten years in prison for archiving the FOI data he collected as a result. He had no idea he was doing anything wrong. (FOI? Hello!). These assclowns scraped data, and created 48 million personal profiles without consent. They knew full well what they were doing. Then they effectively published the data. Careless, much? Arguably they were criminally careless. They probably won't face any penalties at all. Go figure.
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He doesn't. He sells lists of names that meet criteria. The data itself is too valuable to sell, just once.
Facebook is upset that Cambridge Analytics did what Facebook does. Never throw away data and never miss a chance to collect more.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
I'm not sure that word means what you think it means.
the company left a massive store of profile data on a public but unlisted Amazon S3 storage bucket
Cue the Congressional hearing with the 80 year old Congressman asking why Amazon even allows companies to store anything in these buckets if they have holes, and why they can't just stop the leaks with duct tape.
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
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Same convo between friends that stalk each other and AREN'T douchbags just trying to shut down conversations:
Joe: So I was thinking of maybe taking a trip to Paris
Bill: Yeah, I saw that post. You've got to hit up the Louve.
(Conversation about Paris ensues)
Joe: So, Siri told me about that panguin, how's it going?
Bill: Still finishing up, want to see it?
Joe: Yes.
(They go to garage)
Bill: Any thoughts on the town referendum?
Joe: No Bill, even in a made up contrived example, nobody wants to talk about town referendums. Now let's have at those burgers.
(Bill casually poisons the apolitical sociopath's burger)
Just because they're both informed about the other's activities doesn't mean they have to be bored of each other's activities. If they DID become bored with it, they could tell Siri to shut the hell up. Even WITHOUT knowing any of this, they could still be douchbags trying to halt conversation. Reading people's tweets don't somehow destroy your social skills.