Facebook Privacy Issues: Problems, Recent News and Recommendations

Facebook privacy issues
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Introduction
• With the growth of social media, the privacy
of people has become vulnerable to
commodification and surveillance.
• Due to the use of social media like
Facebook, an individual is allowing others
to access their personal data and
information.
• It is found that most of the Facebook users
remain unaware of how their personal
information are vulnerable to reselling
activities as well as information aggregation.

Reasons of Facebook privacy issues
It is found that there are a number of problems with the
privacy and security settings of Facebook and some of
the problems are discussed below:
• Default privacy and security settings
• Automatic posting of recent activity
• No user control for news feed
• Fake Facebook profiles
• Deleting and deactivating accounts
• Instant personalization