Details of 100m Facebook users collected and published

why does it matter? i dont post passwords or secrets about myself on facebook...i dont log how much i earn per year, my exact address isnt posted on facebook......neither are any of my bank numbers
or anything important...

and why would you wanna troll through 100million users info.....the only thing i cn think of is someone getting your email adress somehow and sending you spam emails....which i just junk box anyway!

its no biggie

I almost like that news stories like this come out. They just remind people that you cannot be too safe on any website, and especially be careful on a website that asks for (and broadcasts) as much personal detail as Facebook. Hopefully at least one person will learn something and go on to teach someone else.

I don't keep much personal information on my Facebook page. Still, it's unnerving to think that this info is being distributed to anyone who wants it... especially since many people do publish details about their life like phone numbers, addresses, GPS locations, etc.

Why do people post confidential content on a free website, not use privacy settings and become shocked/outraged that their information has been taken?

I do find Facebook's concern for its users information to be less than satisfactory but when has the internet, free website service or not been a place for privacy?

so..should we be worried is my question?

I hate it that Facebook can't treat people better, respect privacy, etc. Then again I don't really feel bad for the vast majority of the people whose information they were being careless with.

I know people that are on Facebook, have checked it out had an account that I never; posted a picture, used a real name, or published accurate information on a while back. I was just basically being a "tourist" getting a feel for it, and it SUCKED.

A bunch of sluts looking for the BBD, and if not actual sluts more like superficial social butterflies who don't care about anyone. The ones that aren't like that are addicted to those stupid apps. Pathological liars at every mouse click and unless you know them offline (which kinda defeats the purpose) it's best to accept they are sociopaths who will never appreciate themselves, much less you.

Besides if your just using it like a socially accepted place to meet strangers to fukc (which seems to be a common theme) MySpace has a younger (and sometimes legal) demographic.

lol its the piratebay... they gotz all mah information... no wait... i don't have a facebook account :D

Getting user data from Facebook is one of the simplest tasks that a coder can perform. Literally anyone can do it.

Your data is anything but safe on Facebook. I know this all too well. I was an engineer for a company that made it's money on that very fact. I'm pissed, personally, because I deleted my Facebook account... but my data can still be accessed with or without connecting to the API.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-10802730

BBC interviewed the guy that did it, he explains how it was to see common user names and password so his company could test security for sites. Seems like a okay reason, but if the information could be analysed like that, it'll be interesting to see how many marketing companies do the same.

"Mr Bowes confirmed that all the data he harvested was already publicly available but acknowledged that if anyone now changed their privacy settings, their information would still be accessible.

"If 100,000 Facebook users decide that they no longer want to be in Facebook's directory, I would still have their name and URL but it would no longer, technically, be public," he said."-BBC

F'BOooooooooOK!

these are just names & visible profile data,

Another interesting quote from the article:
"Simon Davies from the watchdog Privacy International told BBC News that Facebook had been given ample warning that something like this would happen.
"Facebook should have anticipated this attack and put measures in place to prevent it," he said
"It is inconceivable that a firm with hundreds of engineers couldn't have imagined a trawl of this magnitude and there's an argument to be heard that Facebook have acted with negligence, he added.