My WorldNetDaily “Technocracy” column this week, as we enter a new year, is about the risks of cyberspace and especially social networking pages in the context of exploitation by virtual criminals:

Technology only expands. It is amoral. It is inexorable. It neither feels no reasons. It simply is, and it will continue to be. Barring a society-leveling disaster, the integration of modern technology in our lives – and the interweaving of the virtual world with our real existence – will only increase. It now comprises the sum total of everything we do when using a computer … and everything our data does, even without our knowledge or consent, as it travels William Gibson’s brightly lighted, data-laden arteries and veins. Anything you post, anything you buy, anything you upload or download, is a potential point of exploitation…

Read the full column here at WorldNetDaily.