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dsabanintoday at 2:39 PM2 repliesview on HN

I seriously doubt that the FaceMash guy was planning mass surveillance from day one. The people who propped him up might have, though.


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digitaltreestoday at 4:28 PM

Wrong. He literally made fun of users for giving information that he could use to spy on them and share that ability with friends. It was a childish form of spying but the intent was there and the monetization tactic came later.

phyzix5761today at 2:49 PM

FaceMash is a very primitive example of mass surveillance and data gathering: use people's pictures without their consent, collect the social rankings in a database somewhere.