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Here's why it would be foolish to expect privacy online
Updated On: 31 March, 2018 11:46 AM IST | Mumbai | Priyanka Dharwadkar
As hell continues to break loose over Facebook and Cambridge Analytica, mid-day breaks it (down) to you why it would be foolish to expect privacy online and what exactly you have signed up for


Illustration/Ravi Jadhav
So you think it won't happen to you, your life and pictures and other sensitive data won't be shredded and paraded for the world, because you've clicked all the privacy locks (settings)? You're living under a rock. Using the Cambridge Analytica (CA) saga - the data firm misused nearly 50 million Facebook users' personal information - as an example, cyber security experts have pooh-poohed the idea that even a semblance of privacy can be achieved while using social networking sites. The only way to ensure privacy is to limit one's use of that site or not have an account on it at all, they say. Facebook and other such sites are going to continue selling your data, at least to marketers (if not others). If that creeps you out, maybe it's time to #DeleteFacebook?
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