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Could a Bank Deny Your Loan Based on Your Facebook Friends?
It seemed straight out of the evil-tech-company playbook. In August, Facebook secured an otherwise innocuous U.S. patent about how to analyze a user’s friend network to let them do something. Most of the patent discusses the fairly mundane technicalities of running a social network—until, last in a list of examples, there appeared the following paragraph...
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If I am wrong, please somebody correct me, but I have the impression that a lot of americans don't care about this thing. There seems to be an acceptance of the lose of privacy on social networks, and that you should be careful what you share online, which now also seems to include who you befriend online. It's like vote against your interests 2.0, because I am potentially a successful (rich) person.