>Who cares about the info you post on Facebook? Aren't services like gmail a bigger threat?
Expand it to Google services and the answer is definitely yes. Facebook takes the data you supply it with, but it also quietly takes things like details of the sites you've visited while logged in that has a "Like" button on them, geo location from the mobile apps, etc.
Google, however, takes everything. Your search history, everyone you've contacted through gmail, your purchases that you've received receipts for through gmail, your location data from Android phones or Google apps, your phone contacts if you've them synced across Google accounts and more.
If you leave location services on, on an Android phone, you can literally view your movement history on Google. Where you've been, when you went there, etc.
I'll be forthcoming and say I mindlessly use these services and serve up the data to Google in exchange for convenience, but in terms of threats to our privacy Google is way, way ahead of Facebook.
It's very hard to decouple from Google. Facebook is easy. I've a Facebook account with minimal information about me on it that I use to keep in contact with family members as I live abroad now. I log in through incognito mode and when I'm done log out. I don't have Facebook owned apps on my phone. The amount of information I serve up to Facebook is nothing compared to what Google get from me every day.
Expand it to Google services and the answer is definitely yes. Facebook takes the data you supply it with, but it also quietly takes things like details of the sites you've visited while logged in that has a "Like" button on them, geo location from the mobile apps, etc.
Google, however, takes everything. Your search history, everyone you've contacted through gmail, your purchases that you've received receipts for through gmail, your location data from Android phones or Google apps, your phone contacts if you've them synced across Google accounts and more.
If you leave location services on, on an Android phone, you can literally view your movement history on Google. Where you've been, when you went there, etc.
I'll be forthcoming and say I mindlessly use these services and serve up the data to Google in exchange for convenience, but in terms of threats to our privacy Google is way, way ahead of Facebook.
It's very hard to decouple from Google. Facebook is easy. I've a Facebook account with minimal information about me on it that I use to keep in contact with family members as I live abroad now. I log in through incognito mode and when I'm done log out. I don't have Facebook owned apps on my phone. The amount of information I serve up to Facebook is nothing compared to what Google get from me every day.