Posts Tagged ‘Privacy’

Millions Details of Facebook Users Published

July 29th, 2010 by admin | 1 Comment | Filed in News

The privacy of millions of Facebook users has been jeopardised after some of their details were harvested and published on the internet. An online security consultant who wished to highlight the social networking site’s privacy issues published a list of data taken from more than 100million users’ profiles.

Ron Bowles used a piece of code to scan Facebook profiles, collecting data not hidden by the user’s privacy settings.

The list has been shared as a downloadable file which has now spread rapidly across the internet, prompting anger and concern from millions of users around the world.

The file has now spread rapidly across the net prompting anger and concern from millions of users all over the world.
On Pirate Bay, the world’s biggest file-sharing website, the list was being distributed and downloaded by more than 1,000 users, but it is believed it will be acessed by thousands more in a matter of days. (more…)

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Google Wi-Fi Snooping Broke The Law

July 9th, 2010 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Technology

The Privacy Commissioner, Karen Curtis, has completed her investigation into Google’s Wi-Fi spying bungle and found the company breached the Privacy Act.

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Photo.red – In this Aug. 7, 2009 file photo Google employee Arthur Poirier, on a camera-equipped tricycle, records images for Googles Street View Maps in Paris, Friday, Aug. 7, 2009. Google Inc. issued an apology Friday May 14, 2010, acknowledging it has been vacuuming up and recording fragments of peoples online activities broadcast over public Wi-Fi networks in many countries while expanding its street mapping feature. The German minister for consumer protection Ilse Aigner criticized Google on Saturday, May 15, saying the U.S. Internet giant still lacks an understanding of the need for privacy, calling it an “alarming incident” happening apparently illegally over some years.

Authorities all over the world are investigating Google, including the Australian privacy watchdog and Australian Federal Police, for sucking up 600GB of “payload data” from unsecured wireless networks over several years while taking pictures for its Street View mapping service. (more…)

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7 Things to Stop Doing Now on Facebook

May 14th, 2010 by admin | 1 Comment | Filed in Blogging

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1. Using a Weak Password

Avoid simple names or words you can find in a dictionary, even with numbers tacked on the end. Instead, mix upper- and lower-case letters, numbers, and symbols. A password should have at least eight characters. One good technique is to insert numbers or symbols in the middle of a word, such as this variant on the word “houses”: hO27usEs!

2. Leaving Your Full Birth Date in Your Profile

It’s an ideal target for identity thieves, who could use it to obtain more information about you and potentially gain access to your bank or credit card account. If you’ve already entered a birth date, go to your profile page and click on the Info tab, then on Edit Information. Under the Basic Information section, choose to show only the month and day or no birthday at all.

3. Overlooking Useful Privacy Controls (more…)

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FACEBOOK privacy hole ‘lets you see where strangers plan to go’

April 27th, 2010 by admin | 3 Comments | Filed in Technology

Facebook’s new system for connecting together the web seems to have a serious privacy hole, a web developer has discovered.

Some people report that they are able to see the public “events” that Facebook users have said they will attend – even if they person is not a “friend” on the social network.

The discovery was made by Ka-Ping Yee, a software engineer for the charitable arm of Google, who was trying out the search query system known as the “Graph API” released by Facebook last Friday. In some cases – though not all – it will let you see the public events that people have said they will attend, or have attended.

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Yee demonstrated the flaw by showing how the API – which plugs directly into Facebook’s databases – can show you a list of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s planned public events.

Yee says that he was very disturbed by the discovery – because there seemed to be no way to prevent the events from appearing on the API, which is publicly accessible, except by saying you were “not attending” an event. (more…)

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