Rogue Marketers

Let’s assume that you’re a big-time Facebook user. You eat, sleep, and breathe Facebook. Or, perhaps you just stop by every week or so to see what’s happening with your friends. Either way, the recent privacy changes made by Facebook could have your contact information (and your friends’ contact information) zipping around the Internet like crazy.

If you’re the type of person who doesn’t think stuff like this really happens, I need you to pay close attention. And read this article.

Rogue Marketers Can Mine Your Info on Facebook

Got an e-mail list of customers or readers and want to know more about each — such as their full name, friends, gender, age, interests, location, job and education level? Facebook has just the free feature you’re looking for, thanks to its recent privacy changes. The hack, first publicized by blogger Max Klein, repurposes a Facebook feature that lets people find their friends on Facebook by scanning through e-mail addresses in their contact list. But as Klein points out, [...]