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Data Firm Exposes 48M Social Media User Profiles

April 19, 2018
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Data Firm Exposes 48M Social Media User Profiles

April 19, 2018
LocalBlox, a small data firm, created personal profiles of 48 million people using data from the likes of Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Zillow and others without getting the consent of the users. ZDNet reported that the company said it “automatically crawls, discovers, extracts, indexes, maps and augments data in a variety of formats from the web […]