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Mozilla blogger bought 1 million Facebook entries (full name, e-mail) for $5

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Re: Mozilla blogger bought 1 million Facebook entries (full name, e-mail) for $5

#31

Just curious, is this illegal? What happens if the seller didn't disclose the method in which he aggregated the data or says I just stood in a shopping mall and asked people to voluntarily disclose these details? (Sure he'll have a hard time proving that) ....

Chances are it's in the app's privacy policy that they can share your data with "carefully selected third parties" or something similar.

Re: Mozilla blogger bought 1 million Facebook entries (full name, e-mail) for $5

#36
I'm sure much of this information is public on their profiles to begin with; with a simple web scraper, you can acquire information about millions of fb accounts and their respective email addresses.

OFC there's an oversupply since they can give out an unlimited amount of copies of this same million FB entries.

Big Data is great because it's super re-usable and can be purposed for anyone's specific need.

Re: Mozilla blogger bought 1 million Facebook entries (full name, e-mail) for $5

#38

I don't see how the fact that he's a Mozilla blogger is relevant. The file contains "just" full name, e-mail and URL. Thieves got the information thanks to their Facebook apps (no idea of its name), it could happen with any third-party app.

I'd imagine you could scrape a million people's publicly available info, too.

Exactly what I'm saying....most of these people probably could care less whether their info is public or not.

Many people talk about caring about their security in an almost idealistic view; few actually care in application.

Re: Mozilla blogger bought 1 million Facebook entries (full name, e-mail) for $5

#40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Where do you get a list of 1 million valid emails?

Type "buy email lists" into Google and pick any ad. Even Salesforce appears to be selling 30 million e-mails.

That's what I'm saying...
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