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Facebook is Dangerous

I ran into this article where Eben describes Facebook as analgous to a "man in the middle" attack that a hacker might employ to intercept apparently private communication for nefarious purposes. I think Eben's analogy is spot on: this isn't a technical hack, this is a social hack, and it amazes me how oblivious we are to the increasing damage Facebook is inflicting on our privacy and the danger it can pose to people who are deemed "criminals" wanted by law enforcement.
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 I realize whether Facebook and similar forms of social networking can be useful is a different question from whether or not Facebook is dangerous from a privacy perspective. I just wish those who frame the debate would more often acknowledge that there are real and immediate positive social interests at stake, beyond 20-somethings wanting to show off their party pictures, that contribute to the complacency some people feel regarding these potential long-term consequences. Maybe if those championing internet privacy gave more credit to those who really do want to find a way to balance behavior in the cyber-realm that contributes to certain positive ends with making a stand for internet re-empowerment, it would go a long way towards making people wake up.

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>		I think that dialogue about this issue might be furthered if we had a tangible example of what the police or other government entities can access by subpoenaing facebook for information about you. As a technological novice, I often have trouble conceptualizing the scope of the information that users casually handover both intentionally or unintentionally. As Abiola and Sanjay point out, many of us know that nothing we place on the internet is truly private. Nevertheless, I was still shocked by the vast scale of information provided in this social-media subpoena that the Boston Police Department delivered to Facebook in the course of their investigation of the "Craigslist Killer." Facebook handed over lists with lists of the suspect's friends, IP logins, photos, tags, and messages. Given that facebook won't acknowledge how many subpoenas they've responded too, we have no way of knowing how often domestic law enforcement or other less savory entities are pouring through our social data. Source: When the cops subpoena your Facebook information, here's what Facebook sends the cops

-- KieranCoe - 07 Apr 2012

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