Facebook Saves All the Stuff You Type, Even If You Never Post It

http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-saves-everything-2013-12

by sgy • 12 years ago

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Qualman• 12 years ago

This article and title are super misleading—the title appears to be a flat-out lie, in fact. It spends five paragraphs ranting about the issue until it finally concedes:

"...Das and Kramer claim to only send back information to Facebook that indicates whether you self-censored, not what you typed. The Facebook rep I spoke with agreed that the company isn’t collecting the text of self-censored posts."

In any case, the fact that Facebook is, or wants to be, slopping up every ounce of data about its users is no surprise.

EDIT: Viewing the actual study[1], it appears this article is even more fluffy. This "self-censorship" feature appears to only have been in place for a small segment of users for 17 days:

"We collected data from 3.9 million users over 17 days and associate self-censorship behavior with features describing users, their social graph, and the interactions between them." [1]

Yikes, Business Insider. Come on.

[1] http://sauvik.me/system/papers/pdfs/000/000/004/original/sel...

Facebook Saves All the Stuff You Type, Even If You Never Post It

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