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Facebook: ‘Dark Profiles’ - Ed Jewett - 06-08-2012

Facebook: Dark Profiles'

August 6th, 2012Via: Washington Post:
Another time, Losse cringed when she learned that a team of Facebook engineers was developing what they called "dark profiles" pages for people who had not signed up for the service but who had been identified in posts by Facebook users. The dark profiles were not to be visible to ordinary users, Losse said, but if the person eventually signed up, Facebook would activate those latent links to other users.
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