THEFT

Is identity theft possible through facebook?

 What would a criminal gain from this site?

I thought I would look into the potential risk of security to people using facebook. In May 2008 the BBC NEWS made a fictional profile and made an app for the website they said 

'We wrote an evil data mining application called Miner, which, if we wanted, could masquerade as a game, a test, or a joke of the day. It took us less than three hours. But whatever it looks like, in the background, it is collecting personal details, and those of the users' friends, and e-mailing them out of Facebook, to our inbox.'

When you click 'Allow' before you play on that silly facebook game are you allowing others to access your personal information?

It does say in very small writing at the bottom there 'By proceeding, you agree to Adult Swim Games Arcades's Terms of Service and Privacy policy - report app'.

And if you have too much time on your hands and you actually read the terms your find that yes your person information is in danger.

a few quotes from the Adult Swim Games Arcades's Privacy policy:

'In addition, we may transfer personally identifiable information about you if we, or one of our business units, are acquired by, sold to, or merged with another entity.'

'.Although we take appropriate measures to safeguard against unauthorized disclosures of information, we cannot assure you that personally identifiable information that we collect will never be disclosed'.

'A representative list of the types of non-personally identifiable information we may collect include: current Internet protocol address and type of browser you are using (e.g., Firefox, Internet Explorer), the type of operating system you are using, (e.g., Microsoft Windows or Mac OS), the domain name of your Internet service provider (e.g., Comcast, Verizon or AT&T), the web pages you have visited, sites visited before and after you visit a site on the Turner Network, the type of handheld or mobile device used to view the site (e.g., iPhone, Blackberry), location information'.

It all comes down to whether our privacy is fair. Is it fair that if this company got brought, our details gained from that application are therefore the new owner's property also? Is it fair that they can access our location and see the web pages we have visited recently? 

Is it fair that innocent young children are faced with fraud when they simply just want to play on a game?