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Re: I find this startup rather disturbing...

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Post by indigoviolet »

handelaar wrote: post #27
oldgregg wrote: post #16

How are they getting access to facebook profiles???

Quite. They have me tied by email address to Facebook and I'm 200% certain that my email address there is not "publicly-available information". Facebook permitting this app to operate will give it serious legal trouble in the EU.

Are you sure your email address is not available on your profile -- even when a search engine finds your profile?

Re: I find this startup rather disturbing...

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Post by lpgauth »

begemot wrote: post #30

With tools like this I'll probably remain unemployable indefinitely as anyone with a subscription will find my quaint short stories. Written at a time of youthful tribulation they read like PKD with a sadistic streak. Or I could just get a new email, but then I'd have no audience and possibly miss out on some interesting conversation. 'So, the main character gags on a dildo laced with LSD?' 'Yes, sir, it's suppose to…

Change your email.

Re: I find this startup rather disturbing...

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Post by natch »

begemot wrote: post #30

With tools like this I'll probably remain unemployable indefinitely as anyone with a subscription will find my quaint short stories. Written at a time of youthful tribulation they read like PKD with a sadistic streak. Or I could just get a new email, but then I'd have no audience and possibly miss out on some interesting conversation. 'So, the main character gags on a dildo laced with LSD?' 'Yes, sir, it's suppose to…

You do know that it's OK to have more than one email address, I suppose. But then, remaining unemployable probably has its upside too ;-).

Re: I find this startup rather disturbing...

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Post by alex_c »

humanlever wrote: post #26
woodsier wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Try deleting your Facebook profile my friend, just try.

Send a message to all your friends and Facebook will do it for you.

That made me laugh, but I don't think Facebook ever deletes anything. Ever. They just "disable" stuff.

Re: I find this startup rather disturbing...

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Post by stanley »

woodsier wrote: post #23
dmoney wrote: post #12

Finding all the places you've used your e-mail address that you forgot about: $15 Deleting your profiles from these places: Priceless

Try deleting your Facebook profile my friend, just try.

http://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_ac...

This appears to have been recently added. Of course, this being Facebook, there is no certainty they actually remove all your data. I should note this is different from the "deactivate" option which simply disables the account.

Re: I find this startup rather disturbing...

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Post by potatolicious »

indigoviolet wrote: post #42
handelaar wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Quite. They have me tied by email address to Facebook and I'm 200% certain that my email address there is not "publicly-available information". Facebook permitting this app to operate will give it serious legal trouble in the EU.

Are you sure your email address is not available on your profile -- even when a search engine finds your profile?

Supposedly you can set the visibility of your email to non-friends or non-network users. The problem here is that I have my FB email setting on private (friends only), and yet somehow this site can see it.

Methinks they may be simply attempting to log in with that email as your username... maybe Facebook returns a different error depending on non-existent username vs. wrong password. Very dumb of FB in that case, and must be fixed.

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