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Facebook recommends that patients of a psychiatrist to friends. How did he know?
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The ability of Facebook to find people, "people you may know", sometimes surprising. Okay, if the person with whom you have a lot of friends in common. But when Facebook recommends a former colleague from work, where you have 15 years of not working — what is it? Place of work is not specified in the profile and no friends in common on Facebook. And — suddenly — the girl you once met and never saw each other. How did he know about her?
It is clear that Facebook takes into account not only mutual friends, and more.We can only guess how it works, which can't be disabled in the settings.
As usual, the help Facebook not provide full information. It says that under "People you may know" (People You May Know) "shows the people on the basis that you have mutual friends, same as information on education or work place, you are in some communities and also on the basis of the contacts that were imported using friend finder and many other factors."
"Many other factors" is a very broad wording. Given the vast array of personal data that Facebook collects, you can speculate. The social network can even compare the list of favorite sites, because Facebook registers the names of visitors to all sites with Like button and Share. Just look at 98 of the targeting options that Facebook offers its advertisers to target advertising to understand the unprecedented scale profiling of users.
Charismatic journalist Kashmir hill, editor of Fusion, spoke about the amazing event that was out of the ordinary, even with the powerful capabilities of Facebook.
The journalist contacted the woman, who works as a psychiatrist (it is called the Lisa, it changed the name). Lisa very rarely comes to Facebook, mostly to respond to the request to participate in the event. But last summer, she noticed that Facebook has started recommending it to as new friends... her own patients.
The woman explained that it is not passed to Facebook your address or phone book, and especially not imported contacts from email Inbox. That is, it is unclear how Facebook figured out these people.
Lisa's patients — mostly elderly people with various health problems, but there is one exception — boarder more than 30 years. He laughingly told his doctor a funny story about what friends he recommends Facebook. Often it is strangers, lovers of active rest close age who snowboard or skydive. But lately, the guy began to get tips to make friends with some strange old people there was a 70 year old gentleman with a rollator walking aid trolley (on wheels for ease of walking) and one old man, who suffers from cerebral palsy. Fun boarder jokingly suggested: "Maybe it's your patients?". The doctor could only look dumbfounded at the screen because she is really learned in these people of their patients, but had no right to admit it in order not to violate medical confidentiality.
How do Facebook know about them?
Options disappear one by one. Lisa says that is not added to your friends in any of his patients. Her office is not working guest WiFi, that patients could not be noted here.
When she learned that Facebook is experimenting with the recommendation of friends at the location she suggested that the reason may be.Facebook saw that some users often appear in the same place — so we can be buddies. But representatives of the company Facebook assured that experimental feature was run in the city limits for a small number of users. The experiment lasted only four weeks in late 2015 and is already finished.
However, there are some doubts about the veracity of Facebook, because too often he offers to be friends with people who have recently met in real life.
But the official comments to Slashdot Facebook representatives reiterated that the company "does not use location data such as coordinates of the phone and location information that you add to your profile to suggest people you may know. We can show people on the basis of information about mutual friends, work and education, your communities, the imported contacts, and other factors."
The company Facebook are unable to answer the journalists 'request, Kashmir hill and to clarify without additional information about the people who are recommended to friends", but the psychiatrist refused to disclose their personal data.
Can only imagine how Facebook figured out these people. According to Kashmir hill, the most probable version is for the social graph, compiled on the basis of phone numbers from contact list in phone. Many people don't realize that Facebook has access to their contacts if the phone has mobile app Facebook. Thus, if your contact list is people who are not familiar with each other, Facebook can, in theory, to invite them to meet you.
The doctor believes that there is a clear violation of medical privacy from Facebook. For example, one of her patients got recommendations to friends of the man she saw on the stairs near the doctor's office. And social network helpfully suggested his name, along with the rest of the profile info. The doctor says that among her patients — people living with HIV, made repeated suicide attempts, suffering from domestic violence. You can't just offer them to make friends with each other.
It is surprising that many users still don't know what Facebook bought the company WhatsApp, and very soon their phonebook from the phone, join the Facebook social graph, even if your phone does not have mobile app Facebook. Users have a few days left to abandon the new user agreement WhatsApp new offer with the latest software upgrade).
Kashmir hill knows how to solve the problem in the specific case of Lisa. In her medical institution is now recommended for patients concerned with the protection of sensitive data, do not log in to network Facebook or other social media accounts while in the medical facility, but it is better to leave the phone in the car before meeting with the doctor. Good advice, but this is not enough to hide from the caring supervision of Big blue brother.
Also interesting: Social networks as a tool for studying the psychological portrait of the consumer
How social networks affect the environment
It all seems nonsense, but only until such time as Facebook does not advise your wife to meet your mistress.
And if you don't, are clever enough Facebook will be able to pick them up.published
Author: Anatoly Alizar
Source: geektimes.ru/post/279940/
It is clear that Facebook takes into account not only mutual friends, and more.We can only guess how it works, which can't be disabled in the settings.
As usual, the help Facebook not provide full information. It says that under "People you may know" (People You May Know) "shows the people on the basis that you have mutual friends, same as information on education or work place, you are in some communities and also on the basis of the contacts that were imported using friend finder and many other factors."
"Many other factors" is a very broad wording. Given the vast array of personal data that Facebook collects, you can speculate. The social network can even compare the list of favorite sites, because Facebook registers the names of visitors to all sites with Like button and Share. Just look at 98 of the targeting options that Facebook offers its advertisers to target advertising to understand the unprecedented scale profiling of users.
Charismatic journalist Kashmir hill, editor of Fusion, spoke about the amazing event that was out of the ordinary, even with the powerful capabilities of Facebook.
The journalist contacted the woman, who works as a psychiatrist (it is called the Lisa, it changed the name). Lisa very rarely comes to Facebook, mostly to respond to the request to participate in the event. But last summer, she noticed that Facebook has started recommending it to as new friends... her own patients.
The woman explained that it is not passed to Facebook your address or phone book, and especially not imported contacts from email Inbox. That is, it is unclear how Facebook figured out these people.
Lisa's patients — mostly elderly people with various health problems, but there is one exception — boarder more than 30 years. He laughingly told his doctor a funny story about what friends he recommends Facebook. Often it is strangers, lovers of active rest close age who snowboard or skydive. But lately, the guy began to get tips to make friends with some strange old people there was a 70 year old gentleman with a rollator walking aid trolley (on wheels for ease of walking) and one old man, who suffers from cerebral palsy. Fun boarder jokingly suggested: "Maybe it's your patients?". The doctor could only look dumbfounded at the screen because she is really learned in these people of their patients, but had no right to admit it in order not to violate medical confidentiality.
How do Facebook know about them?
Options disappear one by one. Lisa says that is not added to your friends in any of his patients. Her office is not working guest WiFi, that patients could not be noted here.
When she learned that Facebook is experimenting with the recommendation of friends at the location she suggested that the reason may be.Facebook saw that some users often appear in the same place — so we can be buddies. But representatives of the company Facebook assured that experimental feature was run in the city limits for a small number of users. The experiment lasted only four weeks in late 2015 and is already finished.
However, there are some doubts about the veracity of Facebook, because too often he offers to be friends with people who have recently met in real life.
But the official comments to Slashdot Facebook representatives reiterated that the company "does not use location data such as coordinates of the phone and location information that you add to your profile to suggest people you may know. We can show people on the basis of information about mutual friends, work and education, your communities, the imported contacts, and other factors."
The company Facebook are unable to answer the journalists 'request, Kashmir hill and to clarify without additional information about the people who are recommended to friends", but the psychiatrist refused to disclose their personal data.
Can only imagine how Facebook figured out these people. According to Kashmir hill, the most probable version is for the social graph, compiled on the basis of phone numbers from contact list in phone. Many people don't realize that Facebook has access to their contacts if the phone has mobile app Facebook. Thus, if your contact list is people who are not familiar with each other, Facebook can, in theory, to invite them to meet you.
The doctor believes that there is a clear violation of medical privacy from Facebook. For example, one of her patients got recommendations to friends of the man she saw on the stairs near the doctor's office. And social network helpfully suggested his name, along with the rest of the profile info. The doctor says that among her patients — people living with HIV, made repeated suicide attempts, suffering from domestic violence. You can't just offer them to make friends with each other.
It is surprising that many users still don't know what Facebook bought the company WhatsApp, and very soon their phonebook from the phone, join the Facebook social graph, even if your phone does not have mobile app Facebook. Users have a few days left to abandon the new user agreement WhatsApp new offer with the latest software upgrade).
Kashmir hill knows how to solve the problem in the specific case of Lisa. In her medical institution is now recommended for patients concerned with the protection of sensitive data, do not log in to network Facebook or other social media accounts while in the medical facility, but it is better to leave the phone in the car before meeting with the doctor. Good advice, but this is not enough to hide from the caring supervision of Big blue brother.
Also interesting: Social networks as a tool for studying the psychological portrait of the consumer
How social networks affect the environment
It all seems nonsense, but only until such time as Facebook does not advise your wife to meet your mistress.
And if you don't, are clever enough Facebook will be able to pick them up.published
Author: Anatoly Alizar
Source: geektimes.ru/post/279940/
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