British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has made an application called “The Miner” that scrapes personal information from the profile it is added to - and from the profiles of all the friends of that person. According to their technology program “Click” has exposed a security flaw in the social networking site Facebook which could compromise privacy.
This was reported by BBC according to this news item.
Facebook told the BBC it has an entire team dedicated to remove applications that break its terms of use, but how long does that take?
While much of the information on Facebook is soft, this is still a rich data buffet for identity thieves. I can’t quite see how the balance of communication and security can ever be totally resolved, but no doubt there will be plenty more scare stories to come before we move in that direction.
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