Truescoop: Social Search with a Twist
February 16, 2009
As social media keeps expanding, privacy and security is in the spotlight, especially on sites like MySpace and Facebook, where you can list home address, birthdays, phone numbers, e-mails, family connections, and post pictures and life details. That information is then available to anyone. Every time you access an application on Facebook, you have to click through a warning screen that tells you that app will be gathering your personal information. And now there’s Truescoop, http://www.truescoop.com, a Facebook tool at http://apps.facebook.com/truescoop/ specifically designed to target that personal information. TrueScoop’s database of millions of records and photos is meant to help people discover personal and criminal histories. So if you find a date on Facebook, you can check them out first, right? Whoa. We all know that there are issues with the Internet and personal privacy, but how much is going too far? Although Truescoop says its service is confidential, the info isn’t – TrueScoop also allows for users to share discoveries with others and comment on someone’s personal profile. Time to be more cautious. Consider what information you post on your blogs and sites carefully. You don’t want some other goose to steal your golden egg.
Jessica W. Bratcher, February 16, 2009
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