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B. Much of your personal data is still publicly available through Facebook Graph, regardless of how much you try to lock down your profile. I don't think this
by brown9-2 17y ago
B. Much of your personal data is still publicly available through Facebook Graph, regardless of how much you try to lock down your profile.
I don't think this is true, as an example here is what the graph API shows about my account:
{
"id": "800679",
"name": "Matthew Brown",
"first_name": "Matthew",
"last_name": "Brown",
"location": {
"id": null,
"name": null
},
"gender": "male"
}
In the past I've had to go through all of the privacy settings painstakingly to make sure nothing is public, but I don't see how it can be said that you can't hide what you want from the public / graph API.
- sounddust 17y ago1) The graph also shares your picture (800679/picture?type=large), likes (800679/likes) and your timezone as well. I consider this "much of your personal data." 2) Before the Graph, it was possible to hide all of this information completely if you used the strictest privacy settings. You could completely hide the fact that you had a facebook account; even the things you published on public FB pages would just show your first name and a placeholder photo. 3) Before the Graph, it wasn't possible to systematically scrape the info of all Facebook users sequentially. The fact that this is now possible will make it easy to collate the data and publish information about you that you haven't personally shared. Most users' photo albums are set to "everyone" (by accident, of course), but previously they were pretty much undiscoverable even if they were public. I'm pretty certain that this is going to be exploted by sploggers and others, just like every other large publicly accessible source of data.