Friday, October 26, 2012

How Insecure Is Facebook Data?

We've been asked why none of us has a Facebook page except for Grandma Bonnie Peters, whose company's Facebook page was set up by an employee and does not contain personal (or current) contact information. Here's why:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/facebook-data-of-1-1-million-users-sold-for-5-online-this-blogger-just-bought-it/

Facebook asks for more identity and contact information than this web site recommends ever keying into a computer. And they've demonstrably failed to keep this information confidential. Some naive Blaze readers don't think their addresses, phone numbers, and dates of birth are high-security information...that shows they're still thinking in twentieth-century terms.

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