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]