Meet your privacy in social networks

For a couple of months, every week a new spy scandal or attacks against Internet privacy is uncovered. No one denies that these facts are not serious and demand special attention from the authorities. However, you do not build a spy network to expose the low importance that users of social networks give their privacy.

To clarify this point, the American comedian Jack It conducted a social media experiment (an experiment based on social networks) to see how much people could figure out who was around from their public profiles on major networks social.

Using geolocation systems that provide Twitter, Google, Facebook and Instagram (and many users activated without a second thought), Vale looked for recent publications closest to your location and began to dig in their public profiles in these networks.

After collecting some data, addressed to strangers calling them by name. When these react surprised, I had some personal information, such as your birth date, the name of the person accompanying you or your pet.