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Privacy pragmatist. Journalist at @nytimes. Named after the Led Zeppelin song. kashmir.hill@nytimes.com or kashhill@protonmail.com

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    1. Kashmir Hill‏Verified account @kashhill 25 Aug 2017

      Over the years I've heard lots of weird stories about Facebook friend recs. This summer a weird thing happened to mehttp://gizmodo.com/facebook-figured-out-my-family-secrets-and-it-wont-tel-1797696163 …

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      Kashmir Hill‏Verified account @kashhill 25 Aug 2017

      Facebook recommended I friend a relative I didn't know existedhttp://gizmodo.com/facebook-figured-out-my-family-secrets-and-it-wont-tel-1797696163 …

      8:49 AM - 25 Aug 2017
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      • Dalith Steiger Hilda Vaughan second-class borough dweller Mr. Jeff Cliff, BSc Emily ✨ Lynzy Billing 🦁 ᴊᴀʏ ᴏᴢ @ʙʀᴀᴠᴇ 💻 ☕ The KIMN Chicken, Festive Dzèkáshu MacViban
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        2. Vess‏ @VessOnSecurity 25 Aug 2017
          Replying to @kashhill @SteveBellovin

          If they use machine learning, it's not just a matter of "won't", it's a matter of "can't".

          3 replies 3 retweets 13 likes
        3. Vess‏ @VessOnSecurity 25 Aug 2017
          Replying to @VessOnSecurity @kashhill @SteveBellovin

          Machine learning-trained neural networks simply cannot explain how they have reached a decision and why.

          1 reply 5 retweets 14 likes
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        2. aab_123‏ @aab_123 25 Aug 2017
          Replying to @kashhill

          Any chance that Facebook may have hooked up with Ancestry to share network connections? I thought ancestry couldn't share living people's..

          2 replies 1 retweet 1 like
        3. aab_123‏ @aab_123 25 Aug 2017
          Replying to @aab_123 @kashhill

          ... info, but maybe they figured out a workaround to share the equivalent of enough metadata to help Facebook?

          0 replies 1 retweet 1 like
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        1. Nate ╯彡┻━┻‏ @natesantos 25 Aug 2017
          Replying to @kashhill

          Interesting story. You mention your father doesn't use Facebook, but has he ever installed WhatsApp or Instagram (or other fbook-owned app)?

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        2. Kashmir Hill‏Verified account @kashhill 25 Aug 2017
          Replying to @kashhill

          If you know how PYMK tech works, I would love to hear from you!http://gizmodo.com/do-you-know-how-pymk-or-other-friend-recommendation-sys-1798326649 …

          11 replies 22 retweets 35 likes
        3. Jerry L Maine‏ @JerryLMaine 25 Aug 2017
          Replying to @kashhill

          Most of these are guided by unsupervised machine learning algorithms... which means Facebook doesn't know exactly how it knows.

          2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
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        2. Madeleine Essss‏ @lunarcamelco 25 Aug 2017
          Replying to @kashhill

          re not being users of FB, it's been known for years they track non-users http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1717563 …

          2 replies 1 retweet 6 likes
        3. Madeleine Essss‏ @lunarcamelco 25 Aug 2017
          Replying to @lunarcamelco @kashhill

          There was litigation about it.https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-wins-belgian-court-appeal-over-data-collection-1467227339 …

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        1. Nicole Ozer‏ @NicoleOzer 25 Aug 2017
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          Amazingly creepy story from @kashhill: Facebook recommended I friend a relative I didn't know existed http://gizmodo.com/facebook-figured-out-my-family-secrets-and-it-wont-tel-1797696163 …

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