{"id":440325,"date":"2010-03-17T17:13:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T21:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196788127833928948.post-1018803195047783509"},"modified":"2010-03-17T17:13:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T21:13:00","slug":"personal-data-publish-only-what-you-can-afford-to-get-leaked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/440325","title":{"rendered":"Personal data &#8211; Publish only what you can afford to get leaked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The security and privacy risks of social networks were the hot topic of many forums and experts for years. And it appears that the worst fears are now materializing &#8211; not only someone can troll for your personal data, they can now purchase it!<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_Hu1rpxRsqcU\/S6FL1r7a7NI\/AAAAAAAAAgg\/0hoJXynLSJs\/s1600-h\/information_selling.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 225px; height: 181px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_Hu1rpxRsqcU\/S6FL1r7a7NI\/AAAAAAAAAgg\/0hoJXynLSJs\/s320\/information_selling.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5449720409792113874\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/191716\/myspace_selling_user_data.html\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">Myspace<\/span> is selling data through the reseller <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">InfoChimps<\/span>. The data that <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\">InfoCh<\/span><\/span><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/191716\/myspace_selling_user_data.html\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">imps  has listed includes &#8216;user <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_3\">playlists<\/span>, mood updates, mobile updates, photos, vents, reviews, blog posts, names and <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_4\">zipcodes<\/span>.&#8217;<\/span><\/a><br \/><i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">So, for everyone that still has some illusions: On the <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_5\">Internet<\/span>, you should only post data about yourself that you want distributed, or at least which won&#8217;t hurt you in any way when they get leaked.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/i><br \/><span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_6\">Talkback<\/span> and comments are most welcome<\/p>\n<p>Related posts<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shortinfosec.net\/2009\/11\/simplified-analysis-can-you-forge.html\">A  Simplified Analysis &#8211; Can you Forge a Biometric ID?<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shortinfosec.net\/2009\/12\/privacy-ignorance-should-eric-schmidt.html\">Privacy  Ignorance &#8211; Was Eric Schmidt thinking?<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shortinfosec.net\/2009\/03\/google-voice-no-privacy-remains.html\">Google  Voice &#8211; No Privacy Remains?<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7196788127833928948-1018803195047783509?l=www.shortinfosec.net' alt='' \/><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/shortinfosec\/~4\/drlp6ns63jU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The security and privacy risks of social networks were the hot topic of many forums and experts for years. And it appears that the worst fears are now materializing &#8211; not only someone can troll for your personal data, they can now purchase it! Myspace is selling data through the reseller InfoChimps. The data that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5679,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-440325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5679"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}