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Facebook photo privacy 20135/20/2023 ![]() ![]() "As has happened so many times with Facebook, this data was always available – but it wasn't this easy to find." It's easy for people in the tech-savvy media bubble that all of us are in to forget that," Scott said. "There are a lot of people who post genuinely private, compromising information. Many members use the "like" button ironically, and younger users often list friends under the family category. Scott also warned that the results could be unreliable. The blogposts have been censored in order to protect those named in the searches, but anyone using the tool directly would have access to a range of information such as full names, place of residence, employers, photographs and lists of friends and family. "If it'd be awkward if it was put on a screen in Times Square, don't put it on Facebook," he said. Scott urged Facebook's users to check their privacy settings. The searches were made and posted by technology commentator Tom Scott, who is among those invited to test Graph Search before it becomes available to the general public. Other lists included Tesco employees who like horses, a reference to the discovery of horse DNA in burgers sold by the supermarket chain, and spouses of people who like Ashley Madison, a dating site for people already in relationships. Graph Search has served up lists of family members of people who live in China and like Falun Gong, people who like the extreme rightwing group English Defence League but also enjoy a curry, and Islamic men who are interested in other men and live in Tehran, where homosexuality is persecuted.
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