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What data about its users does Facebook collect

Facebook is one of the main sites of mankind. And he collects a colossal array of information about his users: in 2014, the developers of the social network reported that 600 terabyte of data is added every day on servers. Viki Analysis specialist Boykis collected information about everything that Facebook about you in one post. Medusa briefly retells the content of the post.

1. Everything that you shared with Facebook

Naturally, the social network stores information about everything that you published - posts, events that interested you, photographs that you uploaded and in which you noted, uploaded videos, personal messages, as well as about the added friends (including the date of adding) and the devices from which you entered the account.

2. Unwritten posts

They wrote a post, but at the last moment they changed their minds and did not press the "publish"? Or rewrote the text from “My boss of the goat” to “Work now is not easy”? Facebook will still remember everything that you entered into the field for publication.

3. Remote posts

Wrapped a comment or check? Well, this is now not visible in your friendland, but the information has not left the server.

Former Facebook employee wrote in 2013: “If you answer the question“ Can Facebook be paid to correctly delete all your information? ”, Where“ correctly ”means the complete erasure of all the traces of your existence on Facebook, then the answer will be“ no ”. He noted that after some time the saved data simply cease to be tied to the personality of a particular user who decided to remove his account.

4. Persons

On Facebook, the DeepFace program is working, which learns to recognize people's faces. Every time your friend celebrates you in the photo, he replenishes the DeepFace base - and next time the program will be easier to “recognize” you.

5. Data that you did not indicate

Facebook itself and with the help of partners analyzes user profiles to collect additional data about them. This includes: preferences in advertising; phone numbers, home addresses and additional email addresses; Location, gender, language, level of education, income, cost, area and year of building a house. Your friends convey something from this, and Facebook comes to some conclusions based on another information known about you.

6. Where did you watch the video

You can upload 360-degree videos to Facebook, in which the user can turn the camera where he wants. And the social network monitors which directions are most interesting and shows the “heat card” to the authors of the video.

7. Outside of Facebook

Facebook also watches what other sites you have visited. Even if you leave your account, the social network will try to track you with the help of Cookies . Moreover, on third -party sites, Facebook can even monitor the movements of the cursor.

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What does Facebook do with this data?

Aggregates and uses for different purposes. First of all for advertising targeting. But, perhaps, the company also secretly conducts social experiments and research, studying your likes and changing the order of posts in the news feed. Perhaps she transfers data to state bodies or insurance companies. It is possible that they are studied by the company's employees for personal purposes.

How to be?

Vicki Boykis compiled a list of the rules that she adheres to when using Facebook.

1. Do not publish too much personal information.
2. Do not publish photos of your children, especially if they are the age when they still cannot give permission.
3. Come out of the Facebook account when you finished using it. Use separate facial browsers and for everything else.
4. Use advertising blockers.
5. Do not use Facebook, and in particular Facebook Messenger, to organize or support political events. If you need to organize, use a facebook as a starting site, and then go to another platform - Signal, WhatsApp (undesirable, Facebook belongs) or Telegram.
6. Do not install the Facebook application on the phone, it asks a lot of strange permits.
7. Do not install Messenger on the phone. Use a mobile site.

Sultan Suleimanov