The other face of Facebook

HURTING SOME THINGS THAT ARE GOOD, OTHERS took it for evil ...
This week on TV was reporting every day with Joaquin Lopez Doriga
(Mexican journalist) on Facebook, Hi5, Myspace, Sonic, etc and how dangerous they are.
It comes a report in the daily Milenio newspaper, about how the kidnappers have
as a source of reliable information and to blogs, Facebook and Hi5. Interviewed say kidnappers and entering the network and see the faces, the
home, cars, travel photos and know the social and economic level have who are there. Already one of them on television had said that before battling long to recognize candidates for kidnapping, but now with Facebook and the information voluntarily on the net we no longer have to merge or investigate where they live or what school studying and where they travel and who are its potatoes, siblings and friends. That happened with Alejandro Marti (Young Mexican killed by his hijackers) who all became. The family has just closed his blog after becoming count of the number of potentially dangerous information that the youth had there happily and without suspecting that he was arming Protect those who killed their Put on children and you, and do not put dangerous information into the network.
THE TRUTH ABOUT 'FACEBOOK'
Facebook is selling the information of its users to the highest bidder. quote: 'What many users do not know is that according to the conditions of contract that virtually assume when you click in the 'accept', users will Facebook give exclusive and perpetual property of all information and pictures they publish. "In fact, highlight the expert members not automatically authorize use Facebook perpetual and transferable, with the rights of distribution or public display of everything posted on their website." Terms of Use Facebook reserves for the right to grant and sublicense all "user content" to other businesses. Without their consent, many users find their photos made in advertising, transforming a private business in public endorsements. Suddenly everything published its affiliates, including their personal photos, his political inclination, the state of their relationships, individual interests and to the location of the house, was posted without your express consent to thousands of users. Believe him when Mr. Melber said that many employers to assess gringos Facebook reviewing resumes for applicants intimate knowledge of testing a page on Facebook is not private at all was evident in a famous case where John Brown University has expelled a student when he discovered a photograph that hung in Facebook dress transvestite Other evidence came when a Secret Service agent visited the University of Oklahoma sophomore Saul Martinez by a published commentary against President .. And to make matters worse, the case does not ends if the user decides to withdraw even when users cancel the membership, their photos and information remain on board, according to Facebook, in case you decide to reactivate your account is more, the user is not removed even when they die. According to the 'terms of use, "the mourners can not force that Facebook's pick Data and images of their relatives, since when the deceased took the virtual contract will Facebook awarded the right to 'keep it active under a special status
commemoration for a period of time determined by us to allow other users to publish and see comments about the deceased.
"Facebook users know that they are helpless participants in a scenario, academics describe as the largest espionage case in the history of mankind. By the way unconsciously become the precursors of the phenomenon of 'Big Brother' is watching. Direct reference to the abuse of state interference in private affairs of citizens common to control their social behavior, subject of a novel deep premonitory written in 1932 by the British Aldous Huxley 'Brave New World."

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Identity theft in NET

More and more cases of hackers who launch programs on the Internet to obtain bank details of the Portuguese. Portugal is in sixth place among the European countries most vulnerable to theft of personal data.
According to data from Panda Software - a company specializing in the worldwide antivirus - only in June this year and only been detected in Portugal in 1438 such infections. Leading the table is Spain, with 2600 infections this month.
The computer security experts agree that identity theft tends to grow in times of economic crisis. Since the beginning of the year, the number of victims of programs designed to obtain personal information and bank details has increased 600%. For Luis Corrons, technical director of PandaLabs, in addition to the economic crisis, we must take into account "the big business of selling private information on the black market, as numbers of credit cards, Paypal accounts or Ebay. Data from a stolen credit card are sold on the black market for only three euros.
The hackers are also being increasingly imaginative in how to obtain the data. In Spain, the pirates put him to run a fraudulent email on behalf of the Treasury, which offered a refund of taxes in exchange for personal information. In Portugal, the CGD is the target of several attacks that deceive their clients to give the number of credit card.

DANGEROUS SOCIAL NETWORKSIn the past, attempts to steal confidential data limited - if the e-mail or computer viruses that are transmitted only by mail. Now other methods are being used.
Twitter or Facebook - social networking on-line very popular among the young, but not only - are full of fake messages that try to 'preach creeping' taking the user to fill all their bank details.
Neither the non-governmental organizations, which collect donations via the Internet, to escape attacks. Sending SMS to mobile phone customers to request the data as if it were the bank, also is becoming a trap increasingly common in the country Normally, only the victims realize they were misled when it is too late .