Study Says Facebook Privacy Concerns Are on the Rise - Is It Accurate? [STUDY] Consumer Report's annual State of the Net study found that people are increasingly concerned with their privacy on Facebook. The report breaks down social privacy into a handful of categories: over-sharing by users, underuse of privacy controls, over-collection of data, over-sharing of data by apps and cyberbullying or harassment. 2,002 online households were surveyed, including 1,340 Facebook users. Based on those numbers, Consumer Reports extrapolated its results upon the rest of Facebook's 188 million North American users. The study raises alarms about Facebook's privacy practices — but does the author do enough to back up his or her claims?
Over-Sharing 4.8 million Facebook users have posted their plans for the day on the site, according to the report's extrapolation. The report was unclear about how many of those 4.8 million users set their location sharing to "friends only," which would drastically reduce the threat of theft. Underuse of Privacy Controls Over-Collection of Data.
13m US Facebook Users Unknowingly Sharing Info with the Public. Facebook’s privacy settings can sometimes be a source of confusion for the social network’s millions of users, and in the US, nearly 13 million of them are either unaware of, or simply don’t use, the privacy controls the site offers. In a recent study, Consumer Reports shows exactly why that figure is nothing short of disastrous, and how over-sharing publicly can be used against Facebook users. 4.8 million people have shared details about their plans for a certain day, making it publicly known when their houses are going to be empty, and 4.7 million have ‘liked’ a Facebook page related to health issues or treatments – exposing details that can be used against them by insurance companies. Out of the 150 million Facebook users in the US, almost 9% are sharing personal information, but seem to be completely oblivious of the fact, and the lack of awareness has had its consequences.
Consumer Reports offers users 9 tips on how to understand privacy tools: Think before typing. Facebook Privacy Policy Infographic | Online Marketing Trends. The Evolution of Privacy on Facebook. About Facebook is a great service. I have a profile, and so does nearly everyone I know under the age of 60. However, Facebook hasn't always managed its users' data well. In the beginning, it restricted the visibility of a user's personal information to just their friends and their "network" (college or school).
This blog post by Kurt Opsahl at the the EFF gives a brief timeline of Facebook's Terms of Service changes through April of 2010. Let me be clear about something: I like Facebook. Data The data for this chart was derived from my interpretation of the Facebook Terms of Service over the years, along with my personal memories of the default privacy settings for different classes of personal data. I welcome data corrections, so please leave a comment below if you have better numbers to share. Types of Personal Data Facebook's classification system for personal data has changed significantly over the years.
Audiences Implementation I built this sketch using Processing.js. About me. Privacy and safety - Social Media Statistics. Two-thirds of parents claim to set rules on their child’s use of social networking sites, although only 53% of children said that their parents set such rules. While communication with known contacts was the most popular social networking activity, 17 % of adults used their profile to communicate with people they do not know. This increases among younger adults. Sixty-nine per cent of adults who have a social networking page or profile used social networking sites to talk to friends or family who they saw regularly anyway, compared to 17% of adults who used sites to talk to those they didn’t already know. Those who talked to people they didn’t know were significantly more likely to be aged 16-24 (22% of those with a social networking page or profile) than 25-34 (7% of those with a profile).
Several areas of potentially risky behaviour are suggested by the qualitative and/or quantitative research. Facebook sous surveillance pendant 20 ans. L’Europe remet la pression sur Facebook. Coup de bluff ? Les mises en cause et rappels à l’ordre par les autorités européennes ou des élus à l’encontre de Facebook se sont multipliés ces dernières années. Elles ne se sont cependant pas encore traduites par des sanctions. Peut-être la révision de la directive européenne de 1995 sur la protection des données personnelles accroitra-t-elle la pression sur le réseau social – mais aussi les autres firmes américaines. Des propositions sur cette future directive seront faites par la Commission européenne d’ici fin janvier 2012. Un renforcement de la directive pour contraindre Dans un communiqué commun, la commissaire Viviane Reding et le ministre allemand de la protection des consommateurs, Ilse Aigner, ont appelé à un renforcement de la protection en Europe. Sont directement visées les entreprises étrangères, avec la volonté que ces dernières appliquent les règles en vigueur, sous peine de se voir interdire de proposer leurs services aux internautes européens.
Facebook conserve les données supprimées. Facebook’s entire business model is under fire in the EU. Perhaps you’ve heard the saying, “If you’re not paying for the product, then you are the product.” Facebook (and just about every other free Web service) has built a business on that saying and its implications, and the European Commission is taking the social network to task for it. The EU is considering a ban on Facebook’s practice of selling demographic data to marketers and advertisers without specific permission from users. First, let’s have a primer on how Facebook makes money: The company gets you to willingly enter all kinds of demographic and behavioral information into a massive database. Advertisers, big brands and Facebook’s sales team call it “data.” You call it your profile, your likes, your check-ins, your comments and everything else you do on the site.
Facebook then uses that data — in an aggregated, anonymized form, of course — to sell media space to brands and advertising agencies. FTC chairman shares lawmakers' privacy concerns about Facebook. Last month, Reps. Joe Barton (R-Texas) and Edward Markey (D-Mass.) called for the FTC to investigate Facebook's practice of tracking users even after they log out of its site. Facebook collects data when users visit websites that feature its "Like" button, even when the users have logged out of their Facebook accounts. The social-networking site says the data collection is inadvertent. "Facebook provides people with control over their information and our focus is on innovating new ways for people to share what they want with whom they want," a Facebook spokesman said in an email.
"Facebook does not track people across the Internet, create profiles of their browsing behavior, and sell that information or use it to target ads. There are companies that do and we agree that more should be done to educate consumers about those practices. " Leibowitz also hinted that the FTC is taking a hard look at "supercookies," tracking files that are more difficult to delete than traditional "cookies. "