Field Recording» Social Media http://www.happyorange.org.uk Field recording, aircraft, sound and technology Fri, 16 Sep 2011 10:37:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Social Media affects the Spy business http://www.happyorange.org.uk/2009/social-media-affects-the-spy-business/ http://www.happyorange.org.uk/2009/social-media-affects-the-spy-business/#comments Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:42:34 +0000 jhuckle http://www.happyorange.org.uk/?p=504 Computer Weekly is carrying an interesting story saying that the UK intelligence services are concerned about how social media platforms are making it increasingly difficult to recruit anonymous personnel.

Anyone with a Facebook account automatically has images in the public domain and is associated with a variety of organisations and other people, making it difficult to keep a low profile…

This is obviously linked to the revelation that the future head of MI6 has been accessible to 200 million Facebook users. Interestingly, Facebook controllers removed this information from their application when asked.

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