Your life is an open face-book
Facebook has made neccessary changes to privacy features after a blogger revealed a loop hole to finding out user details.
Blogger Chris Soghoian pointed out that the advaced search feature of Facebook allowed people to gain access to sensitive details of others in their network.
Information
on users religion and sexuality could be returned using this search tool.
Social networking sites have been frequently scrutinised over their privacy policies as more reports emerge of user data being compromised in their offline world.
University of Southampton IT law professor Lilian Edwards said: “Most of these sites actually provide quite good privacy policies but not everyone knows about them or not everyone knows how to use them.”
Many university students are finding this out the hard way that conversations they perceived as private are being read by professors who have access to their network.
Last month students at Keele University were sent a staff email advising students to be wary of what they said about professors online.
The university is now theartening to take legal action over the matter and are developing a code for proper use of internet service
A spokesman for Keele University said: “The code hasn’t been finalised at the moment.
“It wasn’t just any old comment that was posted though it was quite an abusive remark.”
As Facebook continues to grow so too do the shared networks; London's network has over 700,000 people. It's these networks, which can be regional, work,or university related, that have enabled people in that network to discover information other users-who may have regarded the data as private.
Internet psychologist Graham Jones said: “The privacy rules in social networks should be established by those in the network in just the same way as "offline" social groups establish their own "rules of engagement.”
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