What was that Subject supposed to mean? What was supposed to be the relationship to your question?
However, the interesting aspect of your question is a meta-question: "How can you query a database for personal information about you without exposing yourself to the query system?" If you weren't in the database before you asked...
The virtual profiles of my question are the constructs Facebook (and the google) use for people and identities that are referred to by "members" (AKA users), even though they are not
In April 2021, a large data set of 533 million Facebook users was made freely available for download. Encompassing approximately 20% of Facebook's subscribers, the data was allegedly obtained by exploiting a vulnerability Facebook advises they rectified in August 2019. The primary value of the data is the association of phone numbers to identities; whilst each record included phone, only 2.5 million contained an email address. Most records contained names and genders with many also including dates of birth, location, relationship status and employer.
Emphasis mine; only 2.5 million accounts included an email address.
Sauce? (Score:3)
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Where can I download this database?
I want to see if my family and friends are in it
Really? I was going to check my enemies first.
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Wow, you must know your enemies very good!
Virtual profiles by Facebook and the google? (Score:1)
What was that Subject supposed to mean? What was supposed to be the relationship to your question?
However, the interesting aspect of your question is a meta-question: "How can you query a database for personal information about you without exposing yourself to the query system?" If you weren't in the database before you asked...
The virtual profiles of my question are the constructs Facebook (and the google) use for people and identities that are referred to by "members" (AKA users), even though they are not
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I expect hibp [haveibeenpwned.com] will have it soon enough.
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In April 2021, a large data set of 533 million Facebook users was made freely available for download. Encompassing approximately 20% of Facebook's subscribers, the data was allegedly obtained by exploiting a vulnerability Facebook advises they rectified in August 2019. The primary value of the data is the association of phone numbers to identities; whilst each record included phone, only 2.5 million contained an email address. Most records contained names and genders with many also including dates of birth, location, relationship status and employer.
Emphasis mine; only 2.5 million accounts included an email address.
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It didn't lose it :) They still got it.
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