<story><title>Facebook Ordered by Hamburg Regulator to Allow Pseudonyms</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-28/facebook-ordered-by-hamburg-regulator-to-allow-pseudonyms</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>abluecloud</author><text>How is that possible for them to know your real age, logically? (I don&amp;#x27;t mean you&amp;#x27;re lying, but only you can work out the link with other services and facebook that might be leaking this information).</text></item><item><author>nxb</author><text>Facebook does the same with birthdays. I input my age as 90 when creating my account. They changed it to my real birthday somehow.&lt;p&gt;AND then they expose it publicly to anyone who looks up my profile, even when they aren&amp;#x27;t my friends.&lt;p&gt;AND this is all after me having disabled the &amp;quot;show birthday on timeline&amp;quot; and enabling every other privacy setting there was.&lt;p&gt;If there&amp;#x27;s one company using AI and data collection for evil, it&amp;#x27;s Facebook. Not to mention the years of silently disabling previously set privacy settings without getting the user&amp;#x27;s permission - e.g. the &amp;quot;show profile in search&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Insane. Facebook should be slammed hard by the courts.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>m12k</author><text>Most likely, a number of nxb&amp;#x27;s friends have Facebook integrated with the contacts list on their smartphone, and have nxb&amp;#x27;s birthday associated with their contact details there. Another option is if nxb&amp;#x27;s Facebook account has been connected to their Skype account (though from their FB-skeptic stance I find it unlikely they would make such a connection in the first place).</text></comment>
<story><title>Facebook Ordered by Hamburg Regulator to Allow Pseudonyms</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-28/facebook-ordered-by-hamburg-regulator-to-allow-pseudonyms</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>abluecloud</author><text>How is that possible for them to know your real age, logically? (I don&amp;#x27;t mean you&amp;#x27;re lying, but only you can work out the link with other services and facebook that might be leaking this information).</text></item><item><author>nxb</author><text>Facebook does the same with birthdays. I input my age as 90 when creating my account. They changed it to my real birthday somehow.&lt;p&gt;AND then they expose it publicly to anyone who looks up my profile, even when they aren&amp;#x27;t my friends.&lt;p&gt;AND this is all after me having disabled the &amp;quot;show birthday on timeline&amp;quot; and enabling every other privacy setting there was.&lt;p&gt;If there&amp;#x27;s one company using AI and data collection for evil, it&amp;#x27;s Facebook. Not to mention the years of silently disabling previously set privacy settings without getting the user&amp;#x27;s permission - e.g. the &amp;quot;show profile in search&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Insane. Facebook should be slammed hard by the courts.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smoe</author><text>The easiest way to do it would be if one or more of your friends have your actual birthday stored in their contact list which the facebook app has access to (I think, haven&amp;#x27;t been using fb in quite a while).</text></comment>