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BRIDGET WHELAN

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Sunday 21 August 2011

Searching on twitter

The founder of FACEBOOK said privacy is dead and this account from Joanna Geary, Web Development Editor at The Times seems to prove it. She describes how she traced an American serviceman and his relatives in nine steps. It started with an innocent tweet and ended with a search across national boundaries and international organisations, all of it legal and all of it done from her desk. The result was potentially security sensitive data and personal details of the hapless target's extended family.
Read the full story and be scared here.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2011/aug/19/newspapers-downturn?CMP=twt_fd

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