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Then she plugged this information into Facebook's advertising system to create an ad which would only be displayed to her target, along with the condition that the ad only be displayed to women interested in women.

When Facebook's advertising system showed the ad had been displayed, Korolova knew the target was gay. Or, at least, that her target was "interested in women" on Facebook.

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The cost of finding private information this way is "a few cents," according to the paper, and Korolova used the same technique to figure out a target's age and other sensitive stuff. The Times says Korolova notified Facebook of the problem in July and Facebook addressed the vulnerability by making it impossible to target less than 20 people with an ad. But Korolova says in her paper that someone could simply create 20 fake profiles with the target's characteristics to work around the limitation.

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Feb 19, And still no Heartbroken status. Seperated doesn do it for me, whatever it means. Report Block.

This comment has been removed by a moderator. Feb 20, Faggots and the un-natural life style they have chosen should be banned. Children should not be exposed to these evil people on the internet or elsewhere. If anything should be banned, it is Christian superstition, not faggots, you bigoted fool. Even a troll like yourself should know the basic fact that it isn't a choice. Plus I think more people would agree to keep the bigoted Christians off of the internet, the gays can stay: I think it's a terrible idea to keep the bigoted Christians off the Internet.

After all, if they aren't allowed in here, how will they open their mouths and remove all doubt? Of course homosexuality isn't a choice.

If it was a choice then Uganda would have no homosexuals whatsoever. Feb 21, Reported as abuse. Against TOS. Hopefully account will be deleted. Sign in. Forgot Password Registration. What do you think about this particular story?

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