100 Million Personal Data Facebook Users Published Free

Personal data of about 100 million users of Facebook has been collected and published on the Internet by security consultant. List of data has to share a file can be downloaded, containing the URL of each profile that allows Facebook users to search based on their behalf, and also their unique ID.

Well, this file has been spreading widely through electronic networking. On the Pirate Bay, the site of the world's largest file-sharing, this file has been downloaded and distributed by more than 1000 users.

Data provider named Bowles says, he published the data to highlight the issue of privacy. However, for Facebook Bowles action does not harm anyone and the information is indeed destined for the public and freely available in the virtual domain.

"People are using Facebook is the owner of such information and have the right to share what they wish for, dividing the people they want, and divide whenever they want," Facebook said through a statement to BBC News.

Facebook stated in this case, the information contains data of Facebook users who had previously been approved by the users to share publicly, collected through a search engine such as Google and Bing. "Data that is very personal, obviously, not available," continued the statement.

Simon Davies of Privacy International said Facebook has been warned in advance that something like this would probably happen. "Facebook should be able to anticipate 'this attack and can take action to prevent it," said Davies.

According to him, there would be so many complaints from people today that the User Facebook wondered who are having their data and what should they do with the existence of the database is open.