The Guardian – Dylan Curran – “The harvesting of our personal details goes far beyond what many of us could imagine. So I braced myself and had a look..Want to freak yourself out? I’m going to show just how much of your information the likes of Facebook and Google store about you without you even realising it…” Take some time to 1) read this article, and 2) change your FB privacy settings, and 3) use a FB container extension and 4) change your search engine to: DuckDuckGo, Iquick, SearchEncrypt, or another engine of your choosing that does not track, collect, store and re-purpose your browsing activity or your research.
And as if this is not enough – via Ars Technica: “Facebook scraped call, text message data for years from Android phones [Updated] Maybe check your data archive to see if Facebook’s algorithms know who you called.”
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