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RE: Facebook, Reddit, Steem - surveillance, datamining, advertisers and privacy

in #facebook7 years ago

I saw something which I found rather amusing on Facebook. It was a group where people were testing their security by asking others what they saw.

One person smugly came in and said "me".

What followed were a series of "nopes", "nothing" and "can't see a thing".

"Perfect" they said.

Then one individual came in and said "you have two children - boy and a girl - you have red hair (or at least have had it that way in the last 3 months), your husband has short brown hair, he is 37"... and it went on.

Turned out that they'd gone to the display photo (because these are all visible), found a like from the husband and then read about all her information from his perspective instead.

Goes to show, you're never as locked down as you think you are!

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Yeah, that's a concern. You can lock down your profile, but someone else may leak your information. Did her husband lock down his profile after that? That's the real question.

I believe so, first thing she went off to secure!

Wow! Really? People like checking profiles on Facebook. They love pranking others. Thanks for letting us know.