#Facebookpay Will it all be THAT good? TV3 interview with Selva Orejón to discuss potential risks to the privacy and security of Facebook users, both at the user level and as digital social intelligence.
Last week, we conducted a survey via our Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn channels regarding users’ opinions on the new Facebook Pay; the question was:
What do you think about Facebook now being able to operate as online banking in the European Union? More dangerous or more beneficial? with 4 possible answers to choose from:
- Dangerous
- Beneficial
- It will be the largest database (never seen before)
- I didn’t know
The result was
- 30% of users did not know,
- 33% believe it is more dangerous
- 29% believe it will be the largest database
- 8% believe it will be more beneficial
TV3, Televisió de Catalunya, interviewed Selva Orejón to get her professional opinion on the matter, as a Judicial Expert in Digital Identity and as a professor of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT).
What is Facebook? (Source: Wikipedia)
In mid-2007, it launched French, German, and Spanish versions translated by users on an unpaid basis,5 primarily to drive its expansion outside the United States, as its users are concentrated in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Facebook has more than 1.35 billion members and translations into 70 languages. 6 7 8 In October 2014, Facebook reached 1.35 billion users,6 of which there were more than 700 million mobile users. Brazil, India, Indonesia, Mexico, and the United States are the countries with the most users;9 however, some users own more than one account.10
Its main infrastructure consists of a network of more than 50,000 servers using distributions of the GNU/Linux operating system using LAMP.11
The main criticisms of the social network and the company have always centered on the alleged lack of privacy experienced by its millions of users. These criticisms intensified in 2013, when it was discovered that the United States National Security Agency and other intelligence agencies monitor the profiles of millions of users and their relationships with friends and coworkers.12
On April 9, 2012, it was announced that Facebook acquired Instagram for 1 billion dollars.13 In February 2014, Facebook officials announced the purchase of the mobile messaging service WhatsApp for 16 billion dollars.14
