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- I’ll tell you mine if you tell me yours – location services June 29, 2010
Evil – a website showing phone numbers from Facebook
Before you panic too much, Evil is a great implementation showing the lack of privacy controls most people place when posting information, such as phone numbers, into their stream. Evil simply scans Faceook, blocks half the number for security and shows them at random on a webpage with an avatar of the person as well.
The… »
Facebook changed their security policy – what are your new settings?
The first question to ask yourself is if you have gone into Facebook and verified the security settings on your account. On my other blog, TheSocialNetworker, I did a quick 2 minute video showing you the changes Facebook has implemented to the default settings on privacy settings.
You should be aware that their attempt is to… »
Facebook privacy combinations leave data open to search engines
A recent article on TheNextWeb spotlighted a possible data leak for Facebook Notes to search engines. The original report showed how using a simple Google query would bring up Notes from Facebook even with profiles set to private.
Facebook soon responded that yes, the user profiles are private, but the Notes section for the users was… »
Facebook friends might be hackers
A recent rash of hackers have decided that emailing you and asking for money is just not the way to go. Now, hackers are getting into the social networks and assuming identities of others and asking for money.
One of the common ploys now is to pretend that the person they are imitating is out of… »
Facebook apps stealing your data? Facebook shuts some down
We often give you insight into controlling the data you share across the networks and teaching the kids on what should be considered good sharing and bad sharing. This falls into reputation control.
Apparently some apps were pulling your credentials and starting to spam your contacts with phishing sites. Trend Micro are reported to have uncovered… »
Hiding your Facebook pics? So you thought
I found this twist to Facebook security settings rather interesting. it all started from a story I read on AllFacebook.com. A quick snippet from their posting:
Earlier this week I noticed that one of my friends had made their Facebook profile photos no longer visible. I wasn’t sure if this was because they had put me… »
Is it too easy to find kids personal information on Facebook?
The first thing we should mention is that Facebook does have a stated policy that children under 13 should not use Facebook and those children ages 13-18 should seek parental permission. More on that policy may be found here. A brief subset of the policy states:
Facebook does not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from… »
How a Facebook status invoked violence
In a BBC News article from October 17th I found the following… then the commentary
A man has been jailed for life for stabbing his wife to death over a posting she made on the social networking site Facebook.
We first send thoughts to the family affected by this. Physical voilence stemming from comments, postings and updates… »