Dating Site Apes 250,000 Facebook Profiles

When online dating site lovely-faces.com launched this week with 250,000 profiles, the German creators Paolo Cirio and Alessandro Ludovico proudly announced that they had acquired those users not from legitimate sign-ups, but from scraping public Facebook profiles. Their explanation: it was an art project. Facebook is not happy.

Cirio, a media artist, and Ludovico, editor-in-chief of Neural, a new media arts magazine, claimed that they used custom software to collect information about 1 million public Facebook profiles.

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