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Marketers are downloading data on 100 million Facebook users

Facebook's privacy woes continue. This week a man harvested and published the profile details of 100 million Facebook users. If that weren't bad enough, he then made the file available for free download. You'd think that a lot of companies would be interested in acquiring such data. And you'd be right.

But this is less a case of nefarious marketing tricks than a factor of Facebook's privacy settings. And things are only going to get worse as Facebook grows.

The man responsible for the leak, Ron Bowes, is a security consultant. He tells the BBC that it was a test for a new security tool he's working on:

"I'm a developer for the Nmap Security Scanner and one of our recent tools is called Ncrack.

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