If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or get new posts via email. Thanks for visiting!As I’ve mentioned a number of times whether talking about identity theft concerns, new privacy controls on Facebook, or Facebook applications stealing data, identity theft is a growing concern on social networks.
To that […]

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Anyone who has used Facebook knows all about the non-stop deluge of crazy applications that your “friends” have installed and were nice enough to invite you to install. But what do those applications actually do?
We’ve written about identity theft and Facebook before, as well as new Facebook privacy controls. The BBC’s show Click has an […]

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Just wanted to post an update on a post that I had made earlier about Facebook privacy.
Facebook has rolled out some new privacy features that are definitely a welcome change.
You can now fine-tune the information you share to specific friends or friend lists. So you can make friend lists for “Family”, some for “Colleagues” […]

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As social networks like Facebook grow, there are more and more concerns that it will be used as yet another platform for identity theft (as if the mail and doctor’s office wasn’t bad enough).
It makes sense: the more information you share, the more possibility of making a connection with someone. The more you […]

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