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- Facebook is fighting identity theft in India, but it should be doing it globally
Posted by : Brij Bhushan
Thursday 3 August 2017
Every Facebook account comes with a profile picture, but how can we prevent these often personal photos from being stolen? Facebook has some ideas. In India, it recently introduced new measures – including a download guard and watermark – to fight the phenomenon. They’re useful tools, but user education must continue so that everyone understands and uses the platform’s privacy controls. Stealing identifying information from social media sites is a favoured form of identity theft. Typically it involves taking a user’s publicly available data such as addresses, phone numbers, gender, date of birth and photos, and using them to create…
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