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

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<p>"How does a unknown dating site, with the absurd intention of destroying Facebook, launch with 250,000 member profiles on the first day?</p>

<p>Simple.</p>

<p>You scrape data from Facebook.</p>

<p>At least, that’s the approach taken by two provocateurs who launched Lovely-Faces.com this week, 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.”</p>

<p>Or you can just search on people’s real names."</p>

<ul>
<li>Are you featured as “An Easy-Going Woman” or an “Easy-Going Man”?</li>
</ul>

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