05/05/2017
This is only a fraction of the information Facebook has on me, yet I think it’s more than enough that the average person — having never met me — could do a fair job of describing who I am, and what my interests are. At a glance, you can see what sort of smartphone I use, my primary desktop operating system and browser, travel habits, and even my political leanings. The predictions are made based on pages you’ve liked, status updates, what your friends like, location, career focus, and even how you interact with other accounts or ads — on or off the site — and paint a fairly comprehensive picture of each of us. And this is just the data Facebook’s making public.
It’s sort of amazing, really. Scary too. This is, after all, information each of us give up willingly and don’t think twice about. We fear chance encounters with hackers, but the bigger threat to online privacy, at least in my opinion, are the sites we interact with on a daily basis.
https://thenextweb.com/facebook/2017/04/26/ever-wonder-what-facebook-knows-about-you-heres-how-to-find-out/ #.tnw_E9mn23Ut
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