Micro Investing

bowlhead99

Anthorn wrote: »

I also expect that Facebook would have something to say about someone claiming to have obtained a personal home address from a "cursory glance" at a public profile.

If the public profile is set to have posts visible to public (rather than just to friends, or friends of friends) then largely, we see what you see when you are logged into it.

Where the person owning the profile frequently uses it to document what they are eating for dinner, where they are doing their shopping, where they are visiting the doctors for what medical conditions, and has Facebook record them as "checked in" to those places -including the building in which they are eating their dinner, and with one of the top listed photos (as determined by Facebook) being a view from the window - it really does not take more than a cursory glance to pick up the key personal data about someone's life.

Perhaps if someone wanted to do more than a cursory glance (which I do not) they could go back far enough through hundreds of posts and find someone wishing a happy birthday. Combined with your age, which you gave earlier, that gives a date of birth. Combined with photos of letters left lying around in photos that gives more information. Combined with names and photos of family that gives more information. Make a few phishing phone calls to people or organisations cropping up in the history, already armed with loads of private information, and it would be trivial to discern more private information from unwary friends, family and others. Such information could be used to carry out all kinds of nefarious activities, especially in the context of a person who had said he will shortly be embarking on travel plans and will not be online or in the phone.

Seriously, I urge you to reconsider your attitude to online privacy. The reason the rest of us are not making our lives and our social media profiles public is because there are huge pitfalls and real dangers.

I hope that this post is not considered "harassing". It is merely a response to your inference that Facebook would be surprised that people can get detailed personal information from public profiles. To avoid any further accusations of harassment, I will stop participating in this thread.

Gadfium

Take a chill pill dude.
You posted your own personal details and that you were going to be abroad and out of contact for 6 weeks. That's a daft thing to do.
A total stranger offers factual advice that it was a less-than-sensible thing to do. You then go off on one about harassment because YOU posted YOUR personal details. Do you actually know how easy it is to glean a shedload of info about you from what you have posted? Address, exact date of birth , recent medical problems (hows the big toe?), where you were treated, your immediate family details.:eek:
Do you know just how easy it would be to clone your identity from that information?

You are making yourself look silly as well as opening yourself to online fraud. I'm embarrassed for you and if you were related to me I'd be incredibly concerned about the amount of personal data that you are making freely available to anyone.

Anthorn

justme111 wrote: »

Sheltered accommodation? That explains it.
Bowl head, I would leave the chap in piece, people have all types of issues. Have a good day

Depends on who you are referring to: It's due to the local council rules that people over a certain age entering social housing go into sheltered accomodation. It's a pretty much automatic requirement. There are those including myself who disagree with that on the grounds that older people who don't need sheltered housing are occupying sheltered housing that may be needed by others who can't get it. Personally, yes I do need it and I was actually referred by a hospital consultant.

Gadfium

Anthorn wrote: »

Depends on who you are referring to: It's due to the local council rules that people over a certain age entering social housing go into sheltered accomodation. It's a pretty much automatic requirement. There are those including myself who disagree with that on the grounds that older people who don't need sheltered housing are occupying sheltered housing that may be needed by others who can't get it. Personally, yes I do need it and I was actually referred by a hospital consultant.

You're STILL here? :rotfl:
If I was you I'd be spending my time locking down my personal details. Start with deleting the screenshot of your browser that clearly shows your date of birth beside your name. And the photo that shows the single birthday card that you received that you helpfully posted on your birthday.

Seriously. You doxxed yourself and yet you chose to spend time flogging a dead horse on the Internerd.

Go get your Facebook account locked down and remove all the personal info that you're spraying all over the Internet before some criminal makes bad stuff happen.

ChesterDog

...and your avatar is surely not a real debit card is it?

JohnRo

It really isn't a great advert for the type of fe.ckless punter Moneybox are targeting is it?

Anthorn

Gadfium wrote: »

You're STILL here? :rotfl:
If I was you I'd be spending my time locking down my personal details. Start with deleting the screenshot of your browser that clearly shows your date of birth beside your name. And the photo that shows the single birthday card that you received that you helpfully posted on your birthday.

Seriously. You doxxed yourself and yet you chose to spend time flogging a dead horse on the Internerd.

Go get your Facebook account locked down and remove all the personal info that you're spraying all over the Internet before some criminal makes bad stuff happen.

But I'm not going to that. So what now are you going to do about my refusal. The ball is in your court.

coyrls

Anthorn wrote: »

But I'm not going to that. So what now are you going to do about my refusal. The ball is in your court.

Please try to recognise that you are being given good advice on security. It's your responsibilty, nobody is going to do anything about your refusal to take good advice.

Gadfium

Anthorn wrote: »

But I'm not going to that. So what now are you going to do about my refusal. The ball is in your court.

Blimey- you really are special. What time does the little yellow bus pick you up in the morning?:D:D

What am I going to do about it? Nothing, other than laughing and shaking my head. Why exactly would you think that I would do anything about your own stupidity?

Anthorn

coyrls wrote: »

nobody is going to do anything about your refusal take good advice.

Good. Best news I've heard all day.