Everybody Can be a James Bond!!

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   Lately, the most popular social networking website today, Facebook, has been criticized and receive many complain about their privacy status.  Since the beginning of this year, most of the Facebook's user not pleased with their privacy settings.

   Public, whether friends, family or even strangers can easily access to our personal private information.  However, that issues still can be control by set our private settings to "Only Me", but the things is now, many of us still didn't know the new Facebook's feature that can't be control by us.  It is called the Facial Recognition.

   Like everyone else, I'm also didn't aware about this new feature until I read an articles from this site: http://www.forbes.com/sites/chunkamui/2011/08/08/facebooks-privacy-issues-are-even-deeper-than-we-knew/ suggested by my lecturer.

   Facebook's Facial Recognition system allowed users to detect anybody by only upload someone pictures, then the system will match the picture of that person with the previous pictures make public by the owner.  Thus, all the information state by the owner can be view by someone whom upload that pictures to be recognize.  With this new feature, everybody can be a detective including the criminals by all the information are public by default and being exposed.

   How scary this technology can be especially to women or girls user and also corporate people.  This feature allowed criminal or stalkers to access to their victims information such as phone no. and home address.  With this information, can lead to many dangerous crime such as rape, robbery, murder, and harassment.  Its very unsafe features from what I can see from my point of view.

   The question is, would you still stay on Facebook after knowing this?  For me I would say YES, because that is the only medium that I can keep in touch with my old friends from primary and secondary school as well as my previous university.  Since I'm using Facebook in 2008, I can manage to find many of my school friend that I have lost contact for a very long time. 

   In addition, many organization such as music, film and animation today create their Facebook's fan page or group page, I can join their page and access to any latest updates, news, information and even sharing knowledge with other group members.  Even many lecturer today suggested to created a Facebook's group page for an easy way to communicate with their students.

   Therefore, it have many reason for me to not leaving Facebook although it has this scary kind of technology and also violates our personal privacy.  In my opinion, it depend on us how much information we must put in our Facebook's profile and we should be able to recognize which one is important or not.  If we take all the safety precautions then maybe the possibility of being target is low. 

   However, Facebook also should be more responsible and sensitive towards their client personal privacy.  Facebook in early days are good enough and still secure, not like today where everybody either in your friends list or not can read all your comment and conversations.  Facebook should do something if their still want their user to be loyal.

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