Seriously. I downloaded the leaks to see if any of my family members were included, so that I could alert them to watch out for targeted scams.
But of course I couldn't resist grepping for a few other things. For example, there were about 25,000 phone numbers, emails, and names of single people in my home city.
The same info is available for about 180,000 US-based people who list Facebook as their employer. I sure hope that nobody takes it into their head to complain about the breach to those people!
It is hella creepy that anybody can search through such a vast quantity of extremely personal information so easily. But this is also a predictable late-stage result of mass-scale social media use.
But of course I couldn't resist grepping for a few other things. For example, there were about 25,000 phone numbers, emails, and names of single people in my home city.
The same info is available for about 180,000 US-based people who list Facebook as their employer. I sure hope that nobody takes it into their head to complain about the breach to those people!
It is hella creepy that anybody can search through such a vast quantity of extremely personal information so easily. But this is also a predictable late-stage result of mass-scale social media use.