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Today in #deletefacebook news: 400M profiles, 15B+ friendship connections, and 3B+ likes have been archived by a now-defunct Facebook search tool called Profile Engine, and all of it is still accessible via their website. Source: https://qz.com/279940/meet-profile-engine-the-spammy-facebook-crawler-hated-by-people-who-want-to-be-forgotten/
One more time for the people in the back: #CambridgeAnalytica is a symptom of a problem with the 👏 very 👏 economic 👏 structure of the post-Web 2.0 internet. This problem isn't going away -- it's getting worse.
Oh, and by the way -- all of this is almost certainly legal in the US. #regulate #decentralize #encrypt
