Back in his Harvard days, Zuckerberg was busted by campus administration for stealing co-ed picture and name information from school servers in order to launch FaceMash. Zuckerberg, who would go on to create Facebook, was charged with stealing information and identities. Today, Wired reports that a media artist and a press critic have decided that turnabout is fair play with regards to Zuckerberg’s greatest development. Paolo Cirio and Ludovico’s social experiment online dating site called Lovely Faces recently went online after scraping 250,000 Facebook profiles for names, locations and photographs – and Facebook is likely to prosecute. Facebook currently makes so much money that they probably will not need personal loans to take this company to court. Source of article – Lovely Faces scraped from Facebook without p! ermission by MoneyBlogNewz.
Lovely-Faces.com information
Lovely Faces takes user data off of Facebook and images of males and females to be able to put them into categories such as "easy going," "smug," and "sly" without any kind of authorization. Cirio and Ludovico are worried about the legality of it all. This is because they used Facebook user's real names as well. The idea that it is acceptable to put personal information on online social press is what is being challenged by Lovely Faces. They claim not to be a business venture, claims Wired.
"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."
Social networks such as Facebook are being targeted by Cirio and Ludovico. The point is to point out cracks inherent in the system. In the early 2000s, several dot coms were falling due to the burst bubble with the over-hyped stock evaluations. The point is to make these networks crumble in the exact same way.
Lovely Faces makes Facebook upset
There’s a violation of Facebook's terms of service in accordance with Barry Schnitt. He is the Director of Policy Communications at Facebook. Lovely-Faces.com is getting investigated by Facebook before legal action happens. After 100 million Facebook user names and profile addresses were released by the online protection research firm called Skill Security, Facebook sued them. Zuckerberg and company might sue again.
Information from
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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