Data harvesting is big business and one need look no further than Facebook, the social media giant, to seethat there are ramifications for amassing information about the masses, including those who do not have accounts Download accounts . The type of information that is collected and who has access(Links to an external site.) to that information is constantly changing. Then, there is the matter of privacy. Do you use Facebook? Does the information Facebook collects violate your privacy(Links to an external site.)? If your Facebook account was hacked, what types of personal information are you at risk of losing? Is it possible for someone to use your public Facebook information to steal your identity? If you could have access to Facebook's database, what types of information would you mine for business purposes?