It might end up on an internet dating site!
Dating’ Site Imports 250,000 Facebook Profiles, Without Permission
The site Lovely-Faces.com was launched this week, with profiles — names, locations and photos — scraped from publicly accessible Facebook pages. The site categorizes these unwitting volunteers into personality types, using a facial recognition algorithm, so you can search for someone in your general area who is “easy going,” “smug” or “sly.”The site's homepage message slyly states: "Welcome to the only dating site that lists real people, sincerely posting their real data and picture. You'll feel comfortable watching them. Just like in Facebook."
Both are true statements. First, The dating site (legally) mined publicly available Facebook page profile pictures and data. Second, it took a page from Mark Zuckerberg's playbook who famously hacked Harvard University computers to get pictures of coeds for his "Face Mash" website, which preceded Facebook.
Karma! Ha!
What this means to you: Either completely remove your public picture for assured privacy OR post your greatest glam shot if you're game for some unintended internet exposure.
(All kidding aside, social networks are pushing out ethical and legal boundaries on data sharing and digital communications. Some may be progressive and "good," but there is are many negatives to network info sharing too.)
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