Facebook is top most,growing web community of the world and the Quizzes are the most popular and interesting application of such social network. User give this Quizzes frequently.But do we all know how much unsecured this quizzes are ?what personal information this Quizzes can fetch from your account?
The Northern California chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has put together a campaign to raise awareness of privacy issues surrounding Facebook applications, in particular quizzes. According to them, million of Facebook users are regularly going to face the unsecureness by giving this kinds of Quizzes.
Let's have a look which information the quizze developer can know.
Step 1: Just login your facebook account.
Step 2 : Give this Facebook quizzes made by ACLU by clicking here or going the following location :
http://apps.facebook.com/aclunc_privacy_quiz/
Step 3 :Click the Arrow and go to the next page and continue by giving answer.For each page wait for sometime to let showing you your information which is fetched by itself.
## Now after giving your first answer of this quize it will fetch your all personal information and show you :
## After giving your 2nd answer, this application will fetch your friend's informaiton and show you as previous step.Here please let it few second to complete the process.
The Second experimental result is more dangerous.It means,if you igonore or not participating this Quizzes,but if your friend participate this applicaions,then quize developer still can hack or fetch your private information.
After getting this information ,the quize developer can share,sold or do anything he want.Facebook don't guard your inforamtion. So now,can you understand how much unsecure you are in facebook !!
For securing you,ACLU try to organize all facebook user to "Demand the right to control my information without sacrificing the right to use new technology." For this they ask to sign you their online petition form and ask all to share this quize or this information to all facebook users.
We hope, facebook will immidiately be aware about our safty of informations.
The Northern California chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has put together a campaign to raise awareness of privacy issues surrounding Facebook applications, in particular quizzes. According to them, million of Facebook users are regularly going to face the unsecureness by giving this kinds of Quizzes.
Let's have a look which information the quizze developer can know.
Step 1: Just login your facebook account.
Step 2 : Give this Facebook quizzes made by ACLU by clicking here or going the following location :
http://apps.facebook.com/aclunc_privacy_quiz/
Step 3 :Click the Arrow and go to the next page and continue by giving answer.For each page wait for sometime to let showing you your information which is fetched by itself.
## Now after giving your first answer of this quize it will fetch your all personal information and show you :
## After giving your 2nd answer, this application will fetch your friend's informaiton and show you as previous step.Here please let it few second to complete the process.The Second experimental result is more dangerous.It means,if you igonore or not participating this Quizzes,but if your friend participate this applicaions,then quize developer still can hack or fetch your private information.
After getting this information ,the quize developer can share,sold or do anything he want.Facebook don't guard your inforamtion. So now,can you understand how much unsecure you are in facebook !!
For securing you,ACLU try to organize all facebook user to "Demand the right to control my information without sacrificing the right to use new technology." For this they ask to sign you their online petition form and ask all to share this quize or this information to all facebook users.
We hope, facebook will immidiately be aware about our safty of informations.
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