Article GWPH IT worker harvests Facebook users' personal data – video

IT worker harvests Facebook users' personal data – video

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Josh Halliday, Ken Macfarlane, Mat Heywood
from Technology | The Guardian on (#GWPH)

Facebook has been urged to tighten its privacy settings after a software engineer was able to obtain data about thousands of users by generating random mobile phone numbers. The developer shows how he harvested the names, profile pictures and other data of users who had linked their mobile phone numbers to Facebook, but had not chosen to make them public

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