Facebook privacy - are you worried?

Posted by: CafestudyAdmin

11th Apr 2018 12:36pm

Following the recent Facebook privacy scandal, have you changed your behaviour on Facebook? Are you conscious about how much you share and are you worried about your privacy?

Atilla

9th May 2018 11:14pm

I am concerned now that I have read the news about facebook. I mean I always kind of knew they were using our data for their own purposes but this has really solidified it and made it real. I wonder how much of what I say and do is being shared with others and who is reading what i write. I don't do that much to change my settings before and now but I have thought about it since and might change them to protect myself. But how much protection can you have when the company you are using is managing the data and they have breached?
I wonder who is regulating this and who you could go to if you suspected a leak or a problem. I wouldn't know so I bet a lot of other people wouldn't either.
I am more conscious of what of mine is online but I don't talk to people I don't know about anything personal, just opinions about news events and so on so I am not hugely worried, but it has made me think. As someone who does surveys it is something on my mind occasionally but I think I can trust the survey companies, perhaps more than social media companies.
I have never had a security scare thankfully so I think I will try to assess my settings if I can figure that out and go from there so hopefully I will still have no issues in future

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