Friday, September 7, 2007

Social Media Has Some Serious Privacy Concerns

The sinister side of social networking - CNN.com Annotated

I'm going to agree with Om Malik's statement that Facebook is becoming the quasi-White Pages of the Web. I also don't like the fact companies are collecting information from email addresses. What's the difference from someone snooping in your mail box at home and looking at your private mail?

"Facebook representatives told CNN: "We are making public search listings available to give people who are not currently registered on Facebook the opportunity to discover their friends on the site. A public search listing only shows the name and profile picture."

RapLeaf claims they're protecting your reputation, yet they're giving it away to marketers. While your information may already be out on the web, companies like these are making it way too easy to collect information of online users. Something needs to be done. Identity protection companies are going to get real popular...- post by carusoimaging

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    The issue I see is that everyone who enters their data on to upscoop has his entire addressbook "stolen" by rapleaf and upscoop. they will use this data to gather further information and to sell specific statistics about your friends and family... To store someones data without consent is illegal in Europe and I suspect they are allowed to store this data from European citizens