World headlines would indicate MI6 intelligence has been compromised by Facebook. It depends however, if you would consider the style of swimmers that the future head of the intelligence agency wears a national secret?
The wife of Sir John Sawyers, the next head of MI6, put family details on Facebook and did not make her profile private. Lady Sawyers disclosed details such as the location of the London flat used by the couple, the whereabouts of their three children and of course holiday pictures of John in his trunks.
On a serious note, this information in the wrong hand could put her and her family’s lives at risk. However, in this day and age if other intelligence agencies cannot find out the whereabouts of Sawyers without the use of Facebook, then perhaps we should be taking the word intelligence out of the equation.
On the other hand this is a reminder to all those using social networking sites that every time you upload or download you are leaving a digital footprint While you may not be harbouring international secrets you are perhaps putting your self at risk of identity theft, credit card fraud or worse. If you haven’t already . . . go and lock your profile.
Written by Mandy Ross.Mandy
