Google is Secretly Mining Facebook Data
The Harmony Guy has posted an interesting article highlighting a vulnerability in the Compare People application on Facebook. This is significant given that the application has close to 700,000 people and close to 10 million people have added the application. This means that Google technically has information about almost 20% of all application users. So what information do they have exactly? According to the Harmony Guy:
The Compare People application on Facebook sends user profile information, such as age, gender, city, ZIP code, favorite music, favorite movies, favorite TV shows, favorite books, “about me,†activities, interests, and political view to Google AdSense when displaying advertisements within the application.
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