In 2003, then Harvard student Zuckerberg scraped the names and pictures of co-eds from university servers to be able to produce a "hot or not" website called FaceMash. Zuckerberg was slapped with charges of data theft tantamount to identity theft. That was 2003, however Wired reports that today, a couple of activists with a dating website want Zuckerberg to learn something about information security. The social experiment/dating site Cirio and Alessandro Ludovico call Lovely Faces scraped 250,000 Facebook profiles for real names, locations and head shots without Facebook’s permission, so a lawsuit might be waiting in the wings. Facebook currently makes so much money that they most likely will not need personel loans to take this company to court. Source for this article – Lovely Faces scraped from Facebook! without permission by MoneyBlogNewz.
About Lovely-Faces.com
Without obtaining consent, Lovely Faces grabbed Facebook user data and classified photos of male and female faces via a recognition algorithm into such categories as "easy going," "smug" or "sly." Lovely Faces also managed to grab the real names of Facebook users, however Cirio and Ludovico are not concerned about legality. Wired explains that they claim Lovely Faces isn't for business however for art challenging the idea of sharing online social press personal information.
"If we start to play with the concepts of identity theft and dating, we should be able to unveil how fragile a virtual identity given to a proprietary platform can be," write the Lovely Faces founders on Face to Facebook. "And (we’ll see) how fragile enormous capitalization based on exploiting social systems can be."
What Cirio and Ludovico aim to do to Facebook and any large-scale monetized online social network is shine a light on the cracks inherent in the system. In the early 2000s, many dot coms were falling because of the burst bubble with the over-hyped stock evaluations. The point is to make these networks crumble in the exact same way.
Facebook angry with Lovely Faces
There is a violation of Facebook's terms of service according to Barry Schnitt. He is the Director of Policy Communications at Facebook. Lovely-Faces.com is getting investigated by Facebook before legal action happens. Facebook has sued others before, such as the online protection research firm Skull Protection after it released 100 million Facebook user names and profile addresses. Another lawsuit might interest Zuckerberg. This is very possible.
Articles cited
Face to Facebook
face-to-facebook.net/theory.php
New York Times
bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/28/100-million-facebook-ids-compiled-online/
Wired
wired.com/epicenter/2011/02/facebook-dating/
Dating on Facebook with Flyness: No illegal action required
youtube.com/watch?v=1D51lBv1Hac
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