Socialbot experiment collects 250GB of data from clueless Facebook users

, Facebook. Every day its hundreds of millions of users post updates, upload pictures, and tag to their hearts’ content while paying nary a mind to the site’s privacy settings. And as we’ve seen numerous times before, the data being shared is precisely the type bad guys need to compromise Facebook (and other) accounts.
In an experiment at the University of British Columbia, Canadian researchers showed just how easy it is to harvest data on the world’s biggest social network. The team set up a legion of 102 socialbots — autonomous digital servants