Marketers can mine your facebook info  

There has been much speculation on Facebook’s new privacy settings, which was launched in early December. Facebook users across the spectrum are concerned if the “improved” privacy settings will in fact continue to protect very personal information from unknown users to obtain. Tremendous media attention has been circling around this issue and a heated debate has continued since the change. This article raises some major concerns with marketers being able to obtain very specific personal information from a users account solely through knowing the users e-mail address.

Blogger Max Klein first publicized this information pointing out that a “marketer could take a list of 1,000 e-mails legally or illegally collected and upload those through a dummy account which then lets the user see all the profiles created using those addresses. Given Facebook's ubiquity and most people's reliance on a single e-mail address, the harvest could be quite rich.”. The article also continues to inform readers that even with the most restricted privacy settings, users are still vulnerable to having their information accessed without consent.

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http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/01/06/wired.facebook.marketers/index.html?iref=allsearch

By Marisol Martinez