Give social networks fake details, advises Whitehall web security official
Found on BBC News on Thursday, 25 October 2012
Andy Smith, an internet security chief at the Cabinet Office, said people should only give accurate details to trusted sites such as government ones.
"When you put information on the internet do not use your real name, your real date of birth," he told a Parliament and the Internet Conference in Portcullis House, Westminster.
People do that already. Why would you give your private details to every random website, especially because data breaches and leaks keep happening again and again. Personal data gets sold and bought, and the ability to create a bigger profile on people makes the data more valuable. Random data however won't be worth anything; in fact it will decrease the value for advertisers.