Source: CBS News
An internet security consultant has collected and published limited personal data on about 100 million Facebook users in a move he says was meant to highlight concerns over the company’s much-maligned privacy settings, reports the BBC.
The report says Ron Bowles wrote code that trawled through all Facebook accounts looking for profile information which users had not manually opted to hide in their profile settings. He did not gather (or at least, did not publish) available phone numbers, street or email addresses.
He then posted all the gathered data as a downloadable “torrent” (click here for a Wiki explanation) to the file-sharing website PirateBay.com
Facebook, as well as many tech-savvy users of Pirate Bay and BBC readers who posted messages on the those sites, were quick to point out that his actions do not represent a hack of the social networking site.
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