Levine Science Research Center—Almost all Facebook users are safe from personal information leaks from the site because no one cares enough to use said information in any way, a report published today said.
The computer science researchers were working under a grant from the National Science Foundation to investigate privacy issues with Facebook. They found that although users’ pictures and status updates, including updates containing exact locations of the users, were accessible by anyone with Internet access, none of the users they randomly sampled were important or attractive enough for anyone to actually put the effort into finding the information, the study says. (more…)
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