Public search engines mine private Facebook details

Author: Ryan Naraine
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From DarkReading (Kelly Jackson Higgins)
Another reason to be careful what you post on Facebook: All it takes is a simple Google search, and phishers and marketers can glean a treasure trove of private information [darkreading.com] based on relationships among Facebook “friends,” according to new research.

Researchers from the U.K.’s University of Cambridge recently published a paper [PDF frm cam.ac.uk] detailing a project in which they developed a software tool to correlate and map Facebook profiles they found via public search engines, such as Google, to build detailed maps of relationships among Facebook members.  Read the full story [darkreading.com]

From DarkReading (Kelly Jackson Higgins)

Another reason to be careful what you post on Facebook: All it takes is a simple Google search, and phishers and marketers can glean a treasure trove of private information [darkreading.com] based on relationships among Facebook “friends,” according to new research.

Researchers from the U.K.’s University of Cambridge recently published a paper [PDF frm cam.ac.uk] detailing a project in which they developed a software tool to correlate and map Facebook profiles they found via public search engines, such as Google, to build detailed maps of relationships among Facebook members.  Read the full story [darkreading.com]

 

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