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The Facebook Data Torrent Debacle: Q&A

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Security concerns over Facebook have been raised yet again after a security consultant collected the names and profile URLs for 171 million Facebook accounts from publicly available information. The consultant, Ron Bowes, then uploaded the data as a torrent file allowing anyone with a computer connection to download the data.



Simon Davies a representative of the U.K.-based privacy watchdog Privacy International accused Facebook of negligence over the data mining technique, according to the BBC. Facebook, however, told the British news service that Bowes actions haven't exposed anything new since all the information Bowes collected was already public.



So what are the security risks? Should you be concerned? Let's take a look.



Link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100729/tc_pcworld/thefacebookdatatorrentdebacleqa
 
Oh yay, chances are I'm on that list...
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Yet another reason I would never use Facebook.
 
I've just checked my page. There's absolutely no information displayed to the public other than my name, so I don't really mind.
 
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