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A Creepy Case of Facebook Identity Theft

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Oct

2011

Doppelgangers: most people would assume that these entities are merely figments of man’s imagination. But the truth is, they do exist, just not in the form most people think they do. One woman had to find this out the hard way when she discovered that she had an online doppelganger. Someone had stolen her identity […]

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“Privacy is a way of managing information flow.”

18

Oct

2011

Why are people so willing to give away their personal information to complete strangers? It’s because humans want to share information. And in fact, they share information a lot more freely than other “things” such as goods and services. Which of these are you most likely to provide without thinking much about it? • To give […]

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Facebook’s ticker privacy scare, and what you should do about it

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Sep

2011

Amongst the recent new changes to appear on Facebook, there is a “ticker” (a rolling real time list of what your friends are doing). Not everyone has received it yet, because it’s on a staggered rollout, but millions have already seen it. You’ll find it on the right hand side of your Facebook page, in […]

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