{"id":107,"date":"2012-11-03T23:16:23","date_gmt":"2012-11-04T06:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fredericho\/?p=107"},"modified":"2012-11-19T16:13:32","modified_gmt":"2012-11-19T23:13:32","slug":"blog-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fredericho\/2012\/11\/03\/blog-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook: Ad-Supported Social Media or Creepy Information Trawler?"},"content":{"rendered":"

To the 1.01 billion active users of Facebook<\/a>, the website is a place to keep in touch with friends, share photos, and play games. To advertisers and marketers, however, Facebook is a massive management information system – an opportunity to collect information, preferences, and opinions from millions of users. How much of this happens with user consent, though?<\/p>\n

Facebook has changed (read loosened) its privacy policies many times over the past years. In fact, the website no longer uses a privacy policy but instead prefers to refer to their user agreement as a data-use policy<\/a>. The scandals don’t end there, however. Just over two years ago, Facebook’s implementation of the “Places” feature sparked controversy<\/a> when the application’s default setting tracked the mobile location of users.<\/p>\n

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One of Facebook’s data centers, where all user information is stored<\/p><\/div>\n

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Although users are beginning to be much more conscious about privacy on Facebook<\/a>,<\/a>\u00a0they cannot stop the company from <\/span><\/span>recording and storing almost everything they have ever shared<\/a>, <\/span>including private messages.\u00a0This, coupled with<\/span> very recent proof of the company selling personal information to third parties<\/a>, will have users thinking twice before posting anything on Facebook.<\/p>\n

Picture Source: Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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