March 17, 2010, 11:22AM

Social Net Info Is a Data Mine for Criminals

Computer scientists and policy experts say that such seemingly innocuous bits of self-revelation on social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, etc. can increasingly be collected and reassembled by computers to help create a picture of a person’s identity, sometimes down to the Social Security number. Read the full article. [NY Times]


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