‘Dating’ Site Imports 250,000 Facebook Profiles, Without Permission

WIRED – Feb 3 – Two provocateurs Paolo Cirio and Alessandro Ludovic launched Lovely-Faces.com with profiles, names, locations and photos — scraped from publicly accessible Facebook pages. The site categorizes these unwitting volunteers into personality types, using a facial recognition algorithm, so you can search for someone in your general area who is “easy going,” “smug” or “sly.” Facebook is not amused. “Scraping people’s information violates our terms,” said Barry Schnitt, Facebook’s director of policy communications. “We have taken, and will continue to take, aggressive legal action against organizations that violate these terms. It’s a bit funny hearing Facebook complain about scraping of personal data that is quasi-public. FULL ARTICLE @ WIRED