What is your fancy-shmancy royal name? Where are you most likely to find true love? These questions and SO many others like it pour into social media news feeds daily. To get the answer, you often have to respond to a few seemingly random personal questions that have been set up like a fun quiz. The creators of these quizzes want them to appear meaningless and harmless.
They want everyone to engage whimsically with them. Because in truth, many are phishing attempts at your personal data. And even those that are not can be dangerous because bad actors are always scraping social media sites for data. Data scraping is when someone pulls publicly-available information and builds profiles out of it. Meanwhile, the data scrapers now have the year, maybe even the week, you were born.
And they add it to their growing profile of you. Lest you think your info is safe because somewhere, somehow Facebook is looking out for you, the third question shatters any illusions you may have about that, too. According to the answer to this quiz question, not only do Facebook's default privacy settings do nothing to prevent application developers from scouring your information, Facebook also doesn't screen developers for trustworthiness nor to they require the developer comply with a privacy policy something we've mentioned before.
It's also noted that Facebook does not use any technical measures to limit how developers can collect and use personal information. Says Chris Conley , a technology fellow with the ACLU, it's difficult to know how developers use this data, which could, in theory, be collected and sold for marketing and advertising campaigns.
Finally, the last question prompts you to take action. When the quiz asks you what you should do, the correct answer is: "demand the right to control my information without sacrificing the right to use new technology. The nature of the quiz makes it sounds a bit like fear-mongering, especially with statements like this: "Once details about your personal life are collected by a quiz developer, who knows where they could end up or how they could be used.
Turned over to the government? According to CNET , Facebook doesn't even deny the fact that quiz developers have access to this sort of information. The company does point out that users can limit how much information applications including friends' applications can see by tweaking their privacy settings. From there, you can uncheck the boxes next to the items which you don't want apps to have access to. Still, the ACLU suggests that access to personal information such as this be opt-in rather than opt-out, as it is now.
Now what do I do? If so, all your private info is likely being shared with the quiz developers — whoever they may be. Those seemingly innocuous quizzes are actually apps designed to gain access to all of your personal information on Facebook. This unfettered access has alarmed many groups, including the ACLU. They can continue to request information about your profile and posts.
Developers can ask for this information without any vetting on the part of Facebook. Your Facebook public profile is what shows up when someone Googles your profile. It includes:. You can accept or reject these permissions individually, bearing in mind some apps might actually need this information to function.
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