# FullContact Plugin to display data-mined social network data on users to admins

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/fullcontact-plugin-to-display-data-mined-social-network-data-on-users-to-admins/56409
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [26.Январь.2017 18:24:41 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/fullcontact-plugin-to-display-data-mined-social-network-data-on-users-to-admins/56409 "2017-01-26T18:24:41Z")
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### Author: ![ChrisBeach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/chrisbeach/32/214628_2.png) [@ChrisBeach](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ChrisBeach)
#### Post date: [26.Январь.2017 18:24:41 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/fullcontact-plugin-to-display-data-mined-social-network-data-on-users-to-admins/56409/1 "2017-01-26T18:24:41Z")

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Continuing the discussion from [User page with custom data from external DB](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-page-with-custom-data-from-external-db/56351/6):

I’m considering writing a plugin to load data from the FullContact Person API for each new sign-up on my forum. This would be available to admins and/or moderators.

[https://www.fullcontact.com/developer/person-api/](https://www.fullcontact.com/developer/person-api/)

It’s astonishing, the information FullContact provides (social profiles, interests, influence measures etc) given just an email address. Here’s how it obtains the data:

[https://support.fullcontact.com/knowledgebase/articles/155392-most-popular-how-do-the-fullcontact-algorithms-co](https://support.fullcontact.com/knowledgebase/articles/155392-most-popular-how-do-the-fullcontact-algorithms-co)

It would be a bonanza for moderators who want to get a fuller background on users, and assign higher trust levels to users with strong online social proof.

However, I would understand if the Discourse team had ethical objections to this plugin idea. Any thoughts?

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### Author: ![erlend\_sh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/erlend_sh/32/119475_2.png) [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [27.Январь.2017 10:05:52 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/fullcontact-plugin-to-display-data-mined-social-network-data-on-users-to-admins/56409/2 "2017-01-27T10:05:52Z")

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Nothing against this as a plugin. It’s a pretty common feature for support software; I see Intercom is one of their customers.