The South Australian Government recently passed new laws requiring all citizens to post personally identifying information when discussing the State Elections. The information—your full name, and your postcode—will be required whether you post to the AdelaideNow website, your own blog, your Facebook, or your Twitter account. (more…)
Semi-regular thoughts…
February 2, 2010
December 10, 2009
Protecting your information on Facebook
This week, security firm Sophos tested Australian Facebook users to see how many people would add an unknown to their friends list. The tests were a repeat of earlier testing in 2007, where they found 43% of people blindly accepted a friend request from a made-up account belonging to a plastic frog.
The 2009 tests showed that we still aren’t being careful on Social Networks: approximately 46% of people blindly accepted friend requests from people they didn’t know.
So why is this a problem? Because you have a lot of personal information on your Facebook profile—by friending people you don’t know you may be setting yourself up for Identity Theft.
July 30, 2009
Facebook don’t respect your privacy
I’ve avoided angry rants on this blog till now, but I have to rant about this:
Today Facebook made a change to how Applications interact with your wall. In an attempt to compete with Twitter they gave enabled wall-posting permissions for most applications, notably Twitter and Friendfeed.
The permissions added by Facebook appear to override the settings that end-users have added themselves. For instance, if you have these applications and they are set to “never publish”… guess what? They’re publishing.