YoHolla even goes so far as to strip geo-location, or data from photos that are uploaded. “Consumers do not realize that when they upload a photo from their phone to the internet, they are telling the bad guys: where they live, where their kids live, that they are on vacation in another country,” said Jeff Thompson, COO.
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When online dating site lovely-faces.com launched this week with 250,000 profiles, the German creators Paolo Cirio and Alessandro Ludovico proudly announced that they had acquired those users not from legitimate sign-ups, but from scraping public Facebook profiles. Their explanation: it was an art project. Facebook is not happy.
Cirio, a media artist, and Ludovico, editor-in-chief of Neural, a new media arts magazine, claimed that they used custom software to collect information about 1 million public Facebook profiles. They scraped names, locations, and photos, and then picked out key descriptive words such as “sly” and “easy going” to organize their unwitting “users” into dating categories.
The duo claims it was all an experiment to point out how easy it is to steal peoples identities.
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With studies showing that only about half of us care about privacy online, services like Identity Theft 911 – one of the largest identity theft resolution firms on the net – are in demand more than ever. We had the opportunity to talk to Ondrej Krehel, Identity Theft 911′s Information Security Officer, about how to keep yourself safe from fraud and identity theft while your busy tagging yourself in those late night photos and sharing them with your entire network. Read below for 11 tips for protecting your identity on social networks and more from Krehel.
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With privacy concerns on Facebook and other social networks peaking over the last few months, it’s no wonder that services like mysafeFriend are popping up to safeguard our online data. Specifically targeting personal information like addresses, credit card numbers and phone numbers, mysafeFriend uses your own social networks to vouch for your identity online, giving your friends peace of mind and protecting you against identity theft.
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