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8 years ago

This is how much personal information you give away when you 'like' a Facebook page

A short filmÂ highlighting the risk of fraud on social media shows how much personalÂ information can be obtained about a person each timeÂ theyÂ like a Facebook page. People in the street were asked to â€˜likeâ€™ a coffee shopâ€™s Facebook page in exchange for a free coffee and croissant. As the customer waited for their drink, a team of background researchers searched across public websites to find out as much personal information about the person as possible within three minutes.

#facebook #privacy

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herzmeister der welten

8 years ago

and sometimes you don't even have to like them yourself, as we have recently learned.

debacle

8 years ago

While the film is funny, I think it gives the totally wrong advice:

Set your privacy settings.

By adjusting privacy settings, maybe the coffee shop cannot get all your personal information, but Facebook itself and their paying or non-paying (governmental) customers still can, as can hackers, that may bypass this magic settings.

The right advice is:

Do not give Facebook or similar companies any personal data in the first place.

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