Facebook: What is Private?
Capital of Nasty, an Electronic Magazine - ISSN 1482-0471
Wednesday, August 5, 2009 at 12:17 (2475/5)
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Users of Facebook beware: In a precedent-setting decision by a Toronto judge, a man injured in a car accident has been ordered to turn over information from his Facebook page which is off-limits to the public.
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...I mean, do they still use CSS "collapse" to "hide" private profiles?
I haven't been on Facebook for eons, so I wonder if they eventually fixed that little CSS trick.
I'm surprised, however, that people would risk putting so much personal information on a third-party website that they know so little about. I wonder how long before someone figures out how to milk all that info for evil purposes.
Well, got asked to sign a waiver the other day allowing a recruiter to gather information on me, on social networking sites.