Mark Zuckerberg once got in trouble at Harvard for taking co-ed information from university servers to create FaceMash. He was charged with various offenses that bordered on identity theft. Now that Zuckerberg’s Facebook is the biggest name in online social networking, a couple of activists with an online dating site think he still has a lesson to learn about data security. Cirio and Alessandro Ludovico, founders of courting website Lovely Faces, scraped 250,000 Facebook profiles for names, pictures and locations in order to get their website off the ground. Facebook is displeased that the duo didn’t ask for authorization, and the business might be preparing to sue. Facebook currently makes so much money that they likely won’t need personal loans to take this company to court. Article source – Love! ly Faces scraped from Facebook without permission by MoneyBlogNewz.
What lovely-Faces.com really does
Without obtaining consent, Lovely Faces grabbed Facebook user data and classified images of male and female faces via a recognition algorithm into such categories as "easy going," "smug" or "sly." Cirio and Ludovico are worried about the legality of it all. This is because they used Facebook user's real names as well. Wired explains that they claim Lovely Faces is not for business but for art challenging the idea of sharing online social press personal information.
"If we start to play with the concepts of identity theft and dating, we should be able to unveil how fragile a virtual identity given to a proprietary platform can be," write the Lovely Faces founders on Face to Facebook. "And (we’ll see) how fragile enormous capitalization based on exploiting social systems can be."
What Cirio and Ludovico aim to do to Facebook and any other large-scale monetized online social system is shine a light on the cracks inherent in the system. They’re hoping to make the networks crumble from over-hyped stock evaluations just like in the early 2000s when the bubble burst stopping many dot coms.
Facebook doesn’t value Lovely Faces ‘art’
Facebook Director of Policy Communications is Barry Schnitt who states the social network's terms of service are violated by scarping user data. Facebook is not just jumping to take legal action. The company has to investigate Lovely-Faces.com first. After 100 million Facebook user names and profile addresses were released by the online protection research firm called Skill Security, Facebook sued them. Zuckerberg and business may prosecute again.
Information from
Face to Facebook
face-to-facebook.net/theory.php
New York Times
bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/28/100-million-facebook-ids-compiled-online/
Wired
wired.com/epicenter/2011/02/facebook-dating/
Dating on Facebook with Flyness: No illegal action required
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