You can run. You can hide. But you still won't be safe from Facebook's Graph Search.
After keeping it in beta for six months, the social networking site has finally unveiled its much-hyped new feature, which mines the data found in millions of Facebook profiles — and it could reveal more about you than you'd like.
Graph Search lets Facebook users put together seemingly unconnected bits of information about their friends, as well as friends of friends.
So if you want to know which friends from high school still live in your hometown, or which restaurants your friends in Boston "like," Graph Search can help you find out.
Read more: How to Protect Your Privacy from Facebook Graph Search | TechNewsDaily.com
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Showing posts with label Customer Security. Personal Privacy Rights. Show all posts
7/10/13
Europeans Will Now Know When And What Data Gets Compromised In A Breach — Unless It Was Encrypted
In the wake of the latest notice from a major internet company revealing that user data has been compromised — Facebook’s admission of a security bug compromising data from 6 million users — the European Commission has publishing new, Europe-wide rules that will require ISPs, carriers, broadband providers and others to report to both national regulators and to subscribers more specific detail about what has been compromised within 24 hours of the breach.
But it’s also throwing them a couple of bones. First, to get companies to invest a bit more in security, if they implement approved encryption techniques, then providers do not have to notify the subscriber if they have implemented the appropriate protection measures (although they still have to notify the national authority). Second, the EC is not requiring ISPs and others to report all breach details to subscribers; it merely gives them more specific criteria to help assess when they should.
There is another question mark here: how these rules affect companies who are not ISPs but are still retaining vital customer information. We are reaching out to the EC to ask how, for example, sites like Facebook, Twitter or Evernote — all of whom have released statements on breaches and leaked information in the last several months — would be impacted by the rules.
Read more: Europeans Will Now Know When And What Data Gets Compromised In A Breach — Unless It Was Encrypted | TechCrunch
But it’s also throwing them a couple of bones. First, to get companies to invest a bit more in security, if they implement approved encryption techniques, then providers do not have to notify the subscriber if they have implemented the appropriate protection measures (although they still have to notify the national authority). Second, the EC is not requiring ISPs and others to report all breach details to subscribers; it merely gives them more specific criteria to help assess when they should.
There is another question mark here: how these rules affect companies who are not ISPs but are still retaining vital customer information. We are reaching out to the EC to ask how, for example, sites like Facebook, Twitter or Evernote — all of whom have released statements on breaches and leaked information in the last several months — would be impacted by the rules.
Read more: Europeans Will Now Know When And What Data Gets Compromised In A Breach — Unless It Was Encrypted | TechCrunch
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