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Facebook Fear

Number 22046
Subject Security
Source Elon University
State NC
Year 2004
Publication Date 11/22/2004
Summary This investigation exposed how dangerous it is for students to place a lot of personal information online. The authors used a website, www.thefacebook.com, to track down students' addresses and telephone numbers. Then, they went to surprise the students; many were surprised at how easily they were tracked down, and even took their personal information off of the website.
Category Contest Entry -- Student Work Category
Pages 13
Keywords the facebook;internet;people finders;backgrounding;sting operation;broadcast;visual storytelling
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