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Privacy on Facebook
Privacy on Facebook

Facebook
Facebook Facebook is a social networking site that makes it easy for you to connect and share with family and friends online. It roughly has 2.91 billion users.

Privacy Concerns
Do you know that everybody can search your Facebook profile on the internet? Will you be nervous if you know millions of people may be spying on you through the internet?

Why people quit Facebook
Privacy is the number one reason why people do not use Facebook

Misusing customers' data
Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign is using billions of Facebook users' information to gain benefits without their permission. Facebook sells Facebook users' private data to a company called Cambridge Analytica. Cambridge Analytica analyzes this data and Cruz’s campaign pays Cambridge Analytica to get useful information that can help them gain more votes.

Privacy Sitting on Facebook does not matter
Facebook can still get your private data even if you do not have a Facebook account. Facebook can gather your personal preferences through third-party websites or any website that has a Facebook logo linked to it.

Privacy issue timeline
December 2007: Beacon Advertising Program Allows Facebook User Tracking December 2009: Facebook Makes Previously Private User Information Public May 2010: Facebook Shares User Data with Advertisers via “Privacy Loophole” November 2011: Facebook Settles with FTC on Privacy Charges January 2013: Facebook’s Graph Search Rollout Ignites Privacy Concerns June 2013: Bug Exposes Personal Data of 6 Million Users March 2018: Cambridge Analytica Scandal Affects 50+ Million Users May 2018: Facebook Bug Makes 14 Million Users’ Private Posts Public September 2018: Attackers Access Data of Up to 90 Million Facebook Users