What exactly does Facebook know about you?

For months, Facebook has been hit hard by "scandals" about user privacy, most recently the announcement by the company that their data and even their private messages were available to more than 150 companies. Following the most widespread scandals of social networking in the world, it is necessary to ask the important question: What exactly does Facebook know about you?

With the publication of reports, owning and publishing Facebook "user information", many are questioning the real strength of the information the site owns and what it can do.

According to CBC, Facebook has information about you that you register yourself, such as email, friends, phone number, place of work and housing.

But the data is not limited to this "simple" information, it is more complicated than you imagine because Facebook contains information that you have never disclosed.

For example, the site owns, stores, and categorizes the following information:

– Dates and times when ads on the site are clicked.

– All the applications you have downloaded.

– History of all your conversations on Facebook Messenger.

– All the events to which you have been invited and which you have already participated.

– Dates and times you log in and log out of Facebook during the year.

– If you use a tracking feature, Facebook knows where you are.

All of this and other information is used to target you through companies, which show that they have shared data with Facebook, to design the right ads for you, which can lead you to consume more.

In addition, technology and privacy expert Ashkan Soltani said that Facebook was following your movements on the site without even clicking on a word. She could count your time to read something on the site and store it like yours.

The site also records all the places you visit, using GPS tracking of your location, wherever you are, according to Sultan.

"What Facebook has given a third party the right to collect personal information about you without you being informed or approved," said David Vladik, head of the Consumer Protection Bureau of the Federal Trade Commission, at the New York Times.

(Sky News)