Your Bank Might Know More About You Than You Know
Many Internet users, especially those that have social networking accounts, expose information about themselves but also friends and colleagues on the Internet. Everyone probably read stories in newspapers that cyber criminals are using those information to create false identities or trap friends and colleagues into thinking that they are actually someone they know. What has not been discussed nearly as much is if and how companies and organizations like banks deal with those information.
It is common knowledge that many companies search for information online about future employees but the story that Roger Thompson, AVG's chief research officer, posted on his blog seems to suggest that companies use publicly available information for other things as well.
Many Internet users, especially those that have social networking accounts, expose information about themselves but also friends and colleagues on the Internet. Everyone probably read stories in newspapers that cyber criminals are using those information to create false identities or trap friends and colleagues into thinking that they are actually someone they know. What has not been discussed nearly as much is if and how companies and organizations like banks deal with those information.
It is common knowledge that many companies search for information online about future employees but the story that Roger Thompson, AVG's chief research officer, posted on his blog seems to suggest that companies use publicly available information for other things as well.
