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How Facebook Outs Sex Workers
Posted on 10/12/17 at 10:27 am
Posted on 10/12/17 at 10:27 am
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Leila has two identities, but Facebook is only supposed to know about one of them.
...Her “real identity”—the public one, who lives in California, uses an academic email address, and posts about politics—joined Facebook in 2011. Her sex-work identity is not on the social network at all; for it, she uses a different email address, a different phone number, and a different name. Yet earlier this year, looking at Facebook’s “People You May Know” recommendations, Leila (a name I’m using using in place of either of the names she uses) was shocked to see some of her regular sex-work clients.
Despite the fact that she’d only given Facebook information from her vanilla identity, the company had somehow discerned her real-world connection to these people—and, even more horrifyingly, her account was potentially being presented to them as a friend suggestion too, outing her regular identity to them.
More at the LINK
These indirect signals are going to become bigger issues in time. Just wait until the ads you see on TV start getting personalized and the types of commercials you see start revealing things about you to the people you're watching TV with. Valtrex commercials will no longer seem random.
This post was edited on 10/12/17 at 10:56 am
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Posted on 10/12/17 at 10:30 am to TigerinATL
So how do they pull that information? Phone numbers of contacts or email addresses from your contact list when you log in via mobile app, or via your email accounts, correct?
Posted on 10/12/17 at 10:30 am to TigerinATL
Probably more related to her accessing the accounts from the same source(phone, computer, etc...)
Posted on 10/12/17 at 10:34 am to TigerinATL
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the company had somehow discerned her real-world connection to these people
Um, DUH?
shes logging into two different accounts on the same computer. same IP address. FB knows....
Posted on 10/12/17 at 10:34 am to TigerinATL
Came here for pics :(
Posted on 10/12/17 at 10:38 am to TigerinATL
Think about it... They're starting to know more and more about tracking where people are... If you go to a location frequently enough and leave your phone with a location setting on, you'll probably start to receive suggestions of other accounts that you aren't already friends with that frequent those places too.
Posted on 10/12/17 at 10:39 am to NYCAuburn
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Probably more related to her accessing the accounts from the same source(phone, computer, etc...)
No, the article says that she only has one Facebook account, her personal one.
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Her sex-work identity is not on the social network at all; for it, she uses a different email address, a different phone number, and a different name.
Leila assumed that location tracking was part of how Facebook was connecting the dots, and that does make a lot of sense, but Facebook explicitly denies doing that for the People You May Know feature.
This post was edited on 10/12/17 at 10:41 am
Posted on 10/12/17 at 10:47 am to TigerinATL
It suggested for me my swim teacher that I hadn't seen or talked to in 10 years, and for whom I never contacted in anyway through Facebook.
I still have no idea how it works. Location services doesn't make sense to me since you usually have to consent to it being used for any purpose.
I still have no idea how it works. Location services doesn't make sense to me since you usually have to consent to it being used for any purpose.
This post was edited on 10/12/17 at 10:48 am
Posted on 10/12/17 at 10:53 am to Whoopdedo_LSU
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Um, DUH?
shes logging into two different accounts on the same computer. same IP address. FB knows....
The quoted text above says:
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Her sex-work identity is not on the social network at all;
This post was edited on 10/12/17 at 10:54 am
Posted on 10/12/17 at 10:55 am to LordSaintly
Facebook tracks a lot of shite they don't want you to know about.
I'd be interest to see how much facial recognition on all photos posted to it and online that they access that connect people back and forth.
It pulls your contact list from your phone too. Wonder if her personal phone has all her clients numbers on it.
I'd be interest to see how much facial recognition on all photos posted to it and online that they access that connect people back and forth.
It pulls your contact list from your phone too. Wonder if her personal phone has all her clients numbers on it.
This post was edited on 10/12/17 at 10:56 am
Posted on 10/12/17 at 10:57 am to TennesseeFan25
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So how do they pull that information?
ISP address
Posted on 10/12/17 at 11:06 am to TigerinATL
I am willing to bet she looked these people up on facebook or some of the clients had stalked her and figured out who she was. There is likely some common thread that her and the clients have crossed.
Posted on 10/12/17 at 11:08 am to TigerinATL
I click on the "people you may know" tab every now and again and will have people show up with zero mutual friends who I met obscurely out at a bar a long time ago or something. Never exchanged numbers or anything. It's really freaky.
Posted on 10/12/17 at 11:09 am to TigerinATL
She probably looked them up on Facebook before or after "meeting" them.
Posted on 10/12/17 at 11:10 am to TigerPox
quote:They looked you up.
I click on the "people you may know" tab every now and again and will have people show up with zero mutual friends who I met obscurely out at a bar a long time ago or something. Never exchanged numbers or anything. It's really freaky.
Posted on 10/12/17 at 11:13 am to PearlJam
Without me exchanging any info with them except MAYBE my first name? 
Posted on 10/12/17 at 11:13 am to TigerPox
quote:Yeah earlier this year I saw a guy on there a week after I had met him for the first time and had no mutual friends. They have to use location services
I click on the "people you may know" tab every now and again and will have people show up with zero mutual friends who I met obscurely out at a bar a long time ago or something. Never exchanged numbers or anything. It's really freaky
Posted on 10/12/17 at 11:19 am to TennesseeFan25
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So how do they pull that information?
maybe by pictures?
i see they use photo search software to find all related images to a picture if you want to find out who someone is or if they are really the person in the photo they are using. that "catfishing" show shows the software being used all the time.
plus they do use your info to "data mine" everything about you to sell to advertisers, you might be surprised at how much they know about you and everyone around you even though you never shared that info with facebook or google
Posted on 10/12/17 at 11:39 am to TigerPox
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Without me exchanging any info with them except MAYBE my first name?
Most likely it's because you had the FB app on your mobile device, ran into other random people for a period time who also had the FB app, and due to their tracking analytics made the association.
On one hand that's not far fetched, but on the other hand it can seem pretty creepy.
Posted on 10/12/17 at 11:43 am to TigerinATL
BRB, heading to facebook.
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