A bar of chocolate or a trip to Paris, apparently. That’s what the results of a recent ’social engineering’ survey carried out by Infosecurity Europe revealed.
Although the number of people willing to share their e-mail passwords, date of birth and contact details with complete strangers (on the street!) was down on last year, it was still staggeringly high. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘privacy’
Stop spying on me!
Posted in web 2.0, tagged cyberstalking, facebook, george orwell, privacy on April 7, 2008 | 4 Comments »
In the past I’ve been guilty of dismissing articles about cyberstalking, profiling, privacy breaches, etc, as pieces of sensationalist journalism. I’m the type of person who’ll happily spend the weekend uploading photos to Facebook, leaving comments on other people’s whiteboards, joining the ‘Margaret Mountford (from The Apprentice) Appreciation Society’ and taking quizzes to determine ‘Which 30 Rock Character are you most like’? [...]
