Privacy on Facebook

In class we briefly mentioned the privacy implications of using facebook. While there are a lot of ways that your information can "leak" to those you never intended to get it, one of the seemingly most innocuous is through facebook quizzes. The ACLU put together a quiz demonstrating the privacy vulnerability involved in quizzes.

As they put it

Even if your Facebook profile is "private," when you take a quiz, an unknown quiz developer could be accessing almost everything in your profile: your religion, sexual orientation, political affiliation, pictures, and groups. Facebook quizzes also have access to most of the info on your friends' profiles. This means that if your friend takes a quiz, they could be giving away your personal information too.

If you want to see it for yourself, you can try their quiz