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Major Corporations Are Downloading Those 100 Million Facebook Profiles off BitTorrent [BitTorrent]

7/29/2010

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Remember that torrent yesterday that contained the personal information off of 100 million scraped Facebook profiles? I thought it was strange that the guy didn't sell this information, since many companies would be interested.

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