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Re: [OM] OT. The power of search engines, Google and goodness knows what

Subject: Re: [OM] OT. The power of search engines, Google and goodness knows what else.
From: Frank <wijsmuller@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2017 20:31:19 +0100
Using your wifi means facebook connects the dots of a shared IP address...

2017-01-17 19:08 GMT+01:00 Philippe Amard <photo.philippe.amard@xxxxxxxxx>:

> Or simply they used your computer (IP) and the rest is quite obvious ...
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> Amities
> Philippe
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> 2017-01-17 18:35 UTC+01:00, Nathan Wajsman <photo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > No need to be paranoid. Obviously, you have friends in common. Facebook
> > suggests all the time to me that I should connect with friends of
> friends.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Nathan
> >
> > Nathan Wajsman
> > Alicante, Spain
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> >> On 17 Jan 2017, at 17:48, bj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> The power of search engines, Google and goodness knows what else.
> >>
> >>
> >> Three weeks ago we hosted my wife's daughter, and her son and
> >> daughter, for a couple of weeks.
> >>
> >> I have never mentioned their names on
> >> facebook, never contacted them through facebook, and have contacted
> >> my
> >> wife's daughter only via her e-mail and cell-phone. I have never
> >> contacted her children electronically, nor they me.
> >>
> >> To my utter
> >> surprise, 2 days ago facebook suggested her son as a facebook friend for
> >> me. I have checked since then
> >> and he has never mentioned my name in his
> >> short history on facebook.
> >>
> >> Clearly, facebook and some other entities
> >> have electronic algorithms operating which have incredible, and in my
> >> opinion,
> >> dangerous powers. So far I have not managed to figure out how
> >> they came to link his and my names. This bothers me somewhat.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Brian
> >>
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