Comments on: Some More Rapleaf concern http://andreinchile.com/2007/09/07/some-more-rapleaf-concern/ I will write about being a foreigner (Expat) in Chile and about happenings. I will vent my frustration about companies and will share pictures of travel. Dont expect regular updates ;) Thu, 26 Jan 2012 01:49:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: jen http://andreinchile.com/2007/09/07/some-more-rapleaf-concern/#comment-12665 Sat, 22 Mar 2008 00:59:00 +0000 http://n0comment.wordpress.com/2007/09/07/some-more-rapleaf-concern/#comment-12665 Yeah, Rapleaf is a terrible company with arrogant cofounders who want you tell them they are the greatest invention ever. Right, the greatest invasion of privacy ever. I hope they get sued out of their behind.

]]> By: André http://andreinchile.com/2007/09/07/some-more-rapleaf-concern/#comment-7535 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 20:27:31 +0000 http://n0comment.wordpress.com/2007/09/07/some-more-rapleaf-concern/#comment-7535 Hi Sevenorora,

I guess it is a good one. And yes in my view it is a form of phishing. Just the person entering the details does this knowingly and he does not think he enteres his password in to gmail / yahoo etc. He knows he will enter it in to upscoop.com. However what he doesnt know is that all this data is collected and kept by upscoop even though it is not legal to do so (to keep data of european citizens without their consent) http://www.edps.europa.eu/EDPSWEB/webdav/site/mySite/shared/Documents/EDPS/DataPr

]]> By: Sevenorora http://andreinchile.com/2007/09/07/some-more-rapleaf-concern/#comment-7534 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 19:37:20 +0000 http://n0comment.wordpress.com/2007/09/07/some-more-rapleaf-concern/#comment-7534 I was wondering, can these actions by Upscoop/Rapleaf be categorised under Phishing

]]> By: André http://andreinchile.com/2007/09/07/some-more-rapleaf-concern/#comment-7530 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 14:47:58 +0000 http://n0comment.wordpress.com/2007/09/07/some-more-rapleaf-concern/#comment-7530 even more on this topic: (from broadstuff.com)
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” Despite the swift changes, privacy experts still say Rapleaf may be breaching the privacy of people using social networks like MySpace.com and Facebook, among the other social networks to which it links. Rapleaf lets you retrieve the name, age and social-network affiliations of anyone, as long as you have his or her e-mail address. But what the company does not disclose are the details on how it obtains people’s ties to social networks through their e-mail addresses–a nifty feat considering social networks typically don’t publish members’ e-mail addresses.

Because of this, some people believe Rapleaf’s practices may be violating the terms of service of MySpace and Facebook by linking to people’s profile pages and scraping data from the sites for commercial purposes.

“It seems to undermine the whole social-network model, where small communities are formed within the larger online world. Users typically decide who to ‘friend’ and who not to friend. But if companies have found a way to scarf up e-mail addresses and affiliations, then that’s serious and the Federal Trade Commission should investigate,” said Marc Rotenberg, executive director at the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a nonprofit privacy advocacy group.” obtained from: http://broadstuff.com/archives/408-Private-Lives,-Public-viewings…..html

]]> By: The Internet and Privacy - Get yourself removed from Rapleaf quickly « anyone need my comment? http://andreinchile.com/2007/09/07/some-more-rapleaf-concern/#comment-7526 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 13:11:44 +0000 http://n0comment.wordpress.com/2007/09/07/some-more-rapleaf-concern/#comment-7526 [...] Also see this blog entry: Some more Rapleaf concern Technorati tags: Facebook, Linkedin, Plaxo, Rapleaf, Hi5, Flickr, Myspace, Privacy, [...]

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