It's really important to understand that selling user information is NOT Facebook's business model. That information is their most precious raw material. Selling access to what that information allows to the highest bidder is what makes Facebook rich.https://twitter.com/djcapelis/status/976487885300908032 …
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I remember back in the day facebook would aggressively ask to scrape gmail and other competing service address books. But to prevent it on their end, they would only show *images* of address book data, not text.
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I ran into this when I tried to make a Facebook app that harvested all your friend's phone numbers and gave them to you as a big vcard file. This was before smartphones took off & everyone lost their contacts. Of course, the only data they wouldn't let me get was phone numbers.
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Why I was blindsided by the CA story. Until recently they were actually just shipping this data in massive quantities to app developers to get them on board, and they were quite blase about what the devs did with it. Isn't that giving away the most precious thing they have?
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Facebook selling user data was what I was afraid they'd do WAY back in the day until someone convinced me they couldn't possibly let it loose - having it is their leverage, their core as a business. I'm just so baffled that they let outside parties take it
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