Dating Startup Steals One Million Profiles From Facebook
LovelyFaces.com appears to have pulled its dating site. It launched earlier this week with 250,000 profiles curated out of one million stolen from Facebook.
We’ve asked Facebook what its legal plans are regarding LovelyFaces.com, which appears to have pulled its dating site. It launched earlier this week with 250,000 profiles stolen from the social network without members’ permission.
Wired reported that the online dating startup publicly discloses that the profiles come from Facebook. The LovelyFaces.com, Paolo Cirio and Alessandro Ludovico, say on their corporate site, Face to Facebook:
Facebook, an endlessly cool place for so many people, becomes at the same time a goldmine for identity theft and dating – unfortunately, without the user’s control.
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