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ZDNet UK has a great article about the Greater Manchester Police’s presence on Facebook.

The Greater Manchester Police established an application called GMP Updates on Facebook, providing users with crime news, appeals and missing-persons stories. They claim that witin a day 750 people had downloaded the application.

Greater Manchester Police pitched the tool as a way of helping raise public awareness about crimes, and encouraging users to submit relevant information. However, users who add the application to their Facebook profile may be sharing more information about themselves with the police than they realise, according to Guilherme Roschke, a fellow at the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC).

Read the full article here. I found it really interesting.