When Max Kelly, the chief security officer for Facebook, left the company in 2010, he did not go to Google or Twitter. Instead the man who was responsible for protecting the personal information of Facebook’s more than one billion users from outside attacks went to work for another institution that analyzes large pools of data: the N.S.A..
Facebook has found new, far more intrusive ways to exploit your personal information. The company will now use information from your web browsing history to display tailored advertisements on its site.
How long can you hold out? You’ll see a short list of privacy questions and a ticking timer. Good luck.
A promotion for the game Watch Dogs which uses your Facebook data to guess your location, your income, and your passwords. It combs through your friends to identify which you interact with more than vice versa (“obsessions”), which interact more with you (“stalkers”), and which tag you a lot, spreading your personal information more widely (“liabilities”).
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