Posting your birthday on Facebook could help identity thieves predict your social security number, a new study finds.
Online information about your date of birth and place of birth could allow identity thieves to guess your social security number, according to a paper by two Carnegie Mellon researchers.
The paper, published on Monday in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, details the "unexpected privacy consequences" that arise when disparate data sources can be correlated.
The authors of the study, Alessandro Acquisti, an associate professor of
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Source: Informationweek
By: Thomas Claburn
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