Public Search Engines Mine Private Facebook Details - DarkReading

By Kelly Jackson Higgins
DarkReading

Another reason to be careful what you post on Facebook:


All it takes is a simple Google search, and phishers and marketers can glean a treasure trove of private information based on relationships among Facebook "friends," according to new research.

Researchers from the U.K.'s University of Cambridge recently published a paper (PDF) detailing a project in which they developed a software tool to correlate and map Facebook profiles they found via public search engines, such as Google, to build detailed maps of relationships among Facebook members.

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