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Public search engines mine private Facebook details

Phishers and marketers can glean a treasure trove of private information based on relationships among Facebook friends, according to new research. Researchers from the U.K .s University of Cambridge recently published a paper [PDF frm cam.ac.uk] detailing a project in which they developed a software tool to correlate and map Facebook profiles they found via public search engines, such as Google, to build detailed maps of relationships among members of Facebook. Read the full story.

Source: https://threatpost.com/public-search-engines-mine-private-facebook-details-040309/72547/

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