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Facebook Gifts could encourage users to expose more private information

Posted on September 29, 2012 by pogowasright.org
 Lucian Constantin reports:

Facebook Gifts, the new social gifting service launched by Facebook on Thursday, might encourage users to expose information like their home addresses, birth date, clothing or shoe size that could pose security and privacy risks, according to security experts.

Facebook used to have a Gift Shop application that allowed users to send virtual gifts in the form of images, but it was discontinued in August 2010. The revamped Facebook Gifts feature is the result of Facebook’s May acquisition of mobile e-commerce app Karma and allows users to send physical gifts to their friends.

Read more on Computerworld.
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