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and now, john stossel. do you have a facebook account? do you post pictures on instagram or personal things on twitter or linkedin? you probably do. most americans now do. it s how we connect with friends, share pictures, give updates about our lives. i love facebook. this page helps me understand what you think and you give me feedback that makes me smarter. i also have a personal facebook page that helps me stay in touch with friends, arrange volleyball games. my life is infinitely better because of facebook. but there s a down side. loss of privacy. more of a loss of privacy than i realized before i researched this program. recently a comedian freaked out random people by demonstrating how much he could learn about them. i wanted to see how easy it could be to get personal information from complete ....
Go to facebook, all of these other sites grab information from me as well. so i go to amazon, these sites watch. even one of my favorite sites, reason.com has all of these other sites spying on my interests. this tells me that but it doesn t stop it. right. there are companies that promise to stop it. yeah. but really the easiest way, i mean, if you re using, say, mozilla s firefox as your browser or internet explore rer, the explorer, go into your settings and tell it you want certain types disabled. it give mess a choice to clear my history and that takes it off my computer. right. but google still knows. yeah, that information is being gathered as it s happening in real time. so google, facebook. it doesn t matter. it s already in their data ....
Mile radius of my home, laptops, desktops, netbooks. somebody told it and presumably wiped it clean. i asked them if they wiped it clean and all of them said they did and on half of the devices i was able to find enough data to steal identities even after they erased the hard drives or reset it back to factory. i thought erase means erase. because of the way the technology is built there s these partitions or additional closets that there s still stuff stored in there like a back up. so bad guys know how to find that when you recycle it or throw it away or resell it. so you have to destroy that drive or use a shredder to eliminate the data. you saying nowhere phishing. yeah, any time you receive an e-mail or text message that say pick this link, that s designed to trick you or spoof you. it s entering personal information. ....
Computer. a hacker managed to grab them and sent them to gossip websites. jay-z, ashton kutcher, kim kardashian weren t happy to find their social security numbers and credit card numbers posted on a russian website. how do crooks get this information and is there anything we can do to protect ourselves? he s a consultant for the internet security company. they get paid to stymy hackers and scanners. how do they get in and get my stuff? they get in because consumers may not have antivirus or spy ware or firewall set up. when you say antivirus i think of malware things that wreck the computer but now it s to keep the crooks off? correct. that s designed to keep the bad ....
Our privacy is invaded and that we don t know it. a couple of years ago facebook changed it s privacy settings. yeah, overnight facebook went from basically allowing users to have their settings, private settings to turning all of those switches basically on. saying now default is to share with the entire world. if you had gone in and had your settings put to private, they flipped them to public. so you had to go in and say i want to keep my information private. but that s only if you can figure it out. it s not so easy. people didn t know about it. at a tech conference mark zuckerberg was asked about the change. doing a privacy change for 350 million users is a it s not the type of things that a lot of companies would do. we decides views would be the social norms now. over the course of the night facebook turned what was once private information into totally public information. you didn t hear about people leaving facebook? well, i mean, this is the ....