Telegraph, Thursday (29/07/2010) launch, a list of 100 names published on the Facebook members in the largest file sharing sites, 'Pirate Bay'. the data was leaked in the form of a file can be downloaded to anyone. Such information is scattered and has even been downloaded more than 1000 users.
A file that downloads data diunduhnya on Pirate Bay is amazing and very worrying. Not many users know that their personal data can be accessed through search engines.
However, Facebook still cling to the existing rules on privacy now, and argue that 'Personal data' has been spread on the internet.
As is known the data is nearly a fifth of the overall number of members of Facebook, which reached 500 million users.
Data leakage at the Pirate Bay was conducted by a security consultant Ron Bowles. He uses a number code to collect data in 100 million Facebook users. The goal, he wanted to inform the facebook users that privacy is very important issue and Facebook should immediately tightened security and privacy settings for their site.
Related to this, Simon Davies, from Privacy International, said Facebook had to quickly anticipate any danger that threatens the security of the site.
"Facebook should have anticipated this attack and had prepared appropriate steps to prevent that," said Davies.
"It is inconceivable that a company with hundreds of experts was unable to cope with that at such and such show Facebook has been negligent," he added.
"People do not understand the privacy settings and this is the result." Davies pointed out.
source : www.okezone.com (indonesia language)
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