Before I registered an account with Facebook, I was pretty concerned about their privacy policies,. Of course, like the majority of users who signed up with Facebook, I did not bother to read the entire, or at all, the user agreement.

But registered I did because of many of my friends were already on it, and since then, Facebook has undergone so many changes, visually and in text that many of us have failed to keep up with the changes, but continued to use the website.

Now, with the latest development with Facebook, especially with its “Like” link, US Senators are demanding Facebook change its privacy policy and to let the users decide which websites we want our personal information shared. I totally agree. Who wants to leave a trail all over the web?

The Facebook users that we should be concerned about are not those who use the website regularly but those who signed up and then forgot that they even have a Facebook account because with every update, we have to recheck our privacy and security settings or else they will revert to “default” settings.

A friend alerted me of this issue because he is concerned about the breach of security of a website called Blippy. Both of us have never heard of Blippy prior to this piece of news but then why would be bother with a website that allows someone to share his or her online transactions with the world?

If you have seen screenshots of the site before, the interface is like Twitter but status updates will all be transaction records of online purchases. Why would anyone wants to share such information? I really don’t get it.

Anyway, someone discovered that Google search engine robots picked up some stuff from Blippy, including a list of transactions with credit card numbers. According to Blippy co-founder, Philip Kaplan, those credit card numbers belong to four people. Four is not an earth shattering number but still, if you are a Blippy user, you should be concerned!

I found this news very interesting where Terry Southgate reports that out of curiosity, decided to log on to Google Street View to view his home village of Elmswell in Suffolk and was surprised to see that his wife was captured on screen a total of 43 times while she was walking her dog!

According to him, the Google Street View car took the same route as his wife, Wendy. She probably is not web savvy and does not know about the controversy that surrounds Google Street View. I mean, anyone who sees this car would know that he is at risk of being snapped and broadcast online. If I was her, I would have tried to lose the car, you know?

In any case, this report makes a valid case to argue against Google that their Street View violates the privacy of ordinary folks on the Street.

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