- Jan 24, 2011
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Note to self: when crafting a business plan, stealing data from Facebook might not be the best way to go. A little-known dating site apparently did not get the memo, and imported 250,000 Facebook profiles without permission to populate its site.
The site, Lovely-Faces.com, launched this week with data scraped from public Facebook profiles, including names, locations, and photos. The service used facial recognition technology to sort the Facebook photos into categories like easy going, smug, or sly, according to a report from Wired.
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The site, Lovely-Faces.com, launched this week with data scraped from public Facebook profiles, including names, locations, and photos. The service used facial recognition technology to sort the Facebook photos into categories like easy going, smug, or sly, according to a report from Wired.
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