HMRC data loss raises concern to Facebook users ?

Couldn't possibly put into words how disappointed people are following the current blunder with the HMRC office. The media is doing every thing it could to blow the problem to a whole new scale, and literally tell the person who has these data how to "deal" with them. It seems England's failure to qualify Euro did not help divert the public's concern a single bit.

I stumbled in an excellent article that tells you how to avoid identity theft. At one point, they mention Facebook. Well, sounds interesting. If one had (full) profile of 25 millions people, what would one be able to do in Facebook. Loads ! He would create new accounts with the information he had (lots of them), inviting friends and steal their identities. Alternatively, for each profile, he would be able to get more information about that person by checking him/her out on Facebook, getting ready for even bigger crimes.

Should Facebook users were being lost and sleeping in their social network paradises and happened to disregard privacy issues, the damage would just be unimaginable.