Facebook Says You Should Not Expect Privacy

If there are any people left who think social networking is a safe place to enter your information I think this is a pretty telling story. Times Online has an interesting article on the latest move by Facebook regarding information that previously was inaccessible to search engines. Guess what? They’re going to make it publically accessible. It’s like people never learn (remind anyone of the AOL search query fun?). Okay - to be fair they said it’s only going to include, “basic details, including names and photographs” available.

I’m not sure I agree that it makes ID theft easier as Keith Reed, of Trend Micro said in the article, but it may make recon easier. I’m not saying that that’s not bad - because it very well may be bad, but it’s not as bad as it definitely could have been. But it’s a slippery slope.