If you use Facebook - I suspect many of you - you will have, at one time or another, as friends participated in a Facebook quiz, or maybe one of your friends has marked you to take part in one. With such tempting questionnaires such as "Who has a crush on you?", "What's your IQ?" Or course, "most of the words used" infamous app (18 million people took part), we are dying to know the answer to so many burning questions!
But what happens when you decide to participate in Facebook quizzes? Is it a fun quiz simply harmless or is something more sinister behind Facebook apps quiz?
The risks we take when we play Facebook quizzes were recently highlighted by the article by Paul Bischoff "That the words the most used Facebook quiz is a nightmare for privacy. " Millions of us have taken to social media to share the horrors associated with taking part in this particular quiz, and sounded the alarm that quasimodo knock his feet!
So what's the problem with taking part in Facebook quizzes? Well, to make a Facebook quiz, you must grant permission application to access your Facebook profile, which in turn Hoovers your personal information in order to produce more accurate results.
Let's take a Facebook quiz now - "Who is your soul mate?". Well, I'm not really going to take as I treasure my privacy, but I will show you the type of information an app quiz Facebook needs to produce the desired results.
you'll notice I the "Edit information you provide"
When I click on that button, it asks me to share the following personal information: .
- public profile (required)
- friends list
- messages Timeline - your messages, the messages you're tagged and people are messages on your calendar
- anniversary
- history education
- Hometown
- current City
- Photos - photos uploaded by you and the photos you're tagged
- Likes
you can uncheck all of the above in the Facebook quiz application (except your public profile), but by doing so you may not know who your soul mate is TRUE. ! The horror
Vonvon is the company behind "Who is your Soulmate" and also the creator of the Facebook quiz that has been a hot topic recently -. "Most used words"
I dare say that most of us do not read the privacy policy before granting permission to the application to start, but if you do, you might be surprised to learn Vonvon collects information and what it can do with it. While adults can make an adult decision about whether they want to hand over their personal information, young people may not realize exactly what it entails and how their information could potentially be used.
These are segments taken from Vonvon privacy policy, , which includes the following:
"Vonvon may collect information that is unique to these users (personal identification such as their name, profile picture, gender, birthday, Internet protocol (IP) and Facebook friends list."
as well, so that you can clear the information requests application of you, he still collects your IP address. of course, you can hide your real IP with a VPN !
"in addition, we can use the information and data we collect about you to measure and understand the effectiveness of our advertisements and other content and you offer customized content, like giving you more relevant ads. For example, your birthday, gender, and other demographic characteristics allow us to offer content and advertisements tailored to age and gender. We can also review and analyze your comments and responses to questionnaires on our site to serve ads that you can enjoy or find interesting. For example, if a user is involved in content around new car models, we can infer that this user is planning to buy a new vehicle or he / she recently purchased a new vehicle. "
Vonvon collects your metadata to help advertisers grow their annoying ads - it's all about money - as usual
Vonvon can also store your personal information on one of their servers at any location.
we take precautions to tighten our settings privacy and security on Facebook to protect our valuable personal information, but it seems many of us are all too happy to give up everything in exchange for playing a Facebook quiz, and freely offer it to marketing companies!
CEO and founder of Vonvon, Jonghwa Kim refuted claims that his "most words used" app is a "nightmare for privacy" recently said BBC "We only use this information to generate your results, and we do not store it for other purposes"
Kim also said that personal information is not sold to third parties. - Although their privacy policy clearly states that. are allowed to do
Paul Bischoff told the BBC : "It's hard to believe that these applications collect data just to make best quiz ... especially when their privacy policies go into much detail on how they can use personally identifiable data. "
Although there are Facebook quizzes that ask your public profile information - it is always useful to read the company's privacy policy Even if you. are not concerned about protecting your privacy, you may be giving them permission to access your personal data friends - they may not be best pleased with
Personally, I tend to avoid quiz, wherever possible, direct my enticing quiz eyes is not easy, but * I must resist * Facebook quiz temptation!
Do you make Facebook quizzes? Do you mind that companies like Vonvon collect your personal information and could sell it to third parties? Let us know your thoughts by commenting here on our blog.
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