Social Users Comprising Their Own Security By Themselves

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Billions of social media users are risking their own privacy  without their knowledge making their personal information vulnerable to leakage

A coin has two sides and the same analogy works for social media which has a good and a dark side. Billions of users throughout the world are using social media in different and multiple platforms and are often addicted to different applications of social media which can sometimes risk their privacy and personal information. Few months back billions of users witnessed the social giant Facebook involved in data breaching thus violating their own privacy policy and in later stages Twitter was also reported to have cause data breaching to third parties. Another incident was also recently witnessed by billions users where another social giant Twitter asked them to change their account password immediately followed by a bug in their internal system that may have saved the password in internal logs.

But the most vulnerable scenario is that billions of social media users are themselves exposing their personal information to threat by using different fun applications of different social media, mostly Facebook. Previous year an application named 'Saraha' went viral over the biggest social platform Facebook. Billions of users were using the application to send funny anonymous messages to anyone even if you do not have any account in the application. Users were finding it very fun and a source of great entertainment to get different amazing messages from anonymous persons. Naturally there was several misuse of it by using for spreading hatred, abusing and bullying. This year the new trend is 'Stulish' and it is now viral over Facebook. Billions of users are using it to get anonymous messages from different persons. It is already gaining the same popularity as 'Saraha'. Thus billions of users are threatening the security of their own personal information.

Not just 'Saraha' or 'Stulish', there are millions of fun applications over Facebook which are being used by billion of users. All these applications are third parties who are giving access to their product by logging using your Facebook account. We always get a pop-up messages while registering for the application and without reading we click on 'Allow' to start using that applications sooner. By clicking 'Allow' you give third party applications full access to your personal information over Facebook and also the Facebook profile. They sometimes post on your Facebook wall without asking for permissions. The personal data and information of billions of users are collected by means of these applications which can be misused against you. So we must control our emotion over Facebook and not just taste the fun of those applications. First you have to think in cool mind and read their terms and policies before giving them any permission of your account. Hope billions of social users will be more cautious over social media so that they do not make themselves vulnerable to the dark sides of social media.

Facebook Collecting Data From Rarely Active Profiles or Having No Profile

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Facebook's shocking revelation of their data collection policy from rarely active profiles or having no profile, now pointing fingers at popular social medias blaming them for doing same 

Facebook faces severe waves of anger, outrage and criticism from millions of its users following the recent Cambridge Analytica data scandal in which Facebook is found to have breached its own privacy policy regarding sharing of personal data with third-party users. Facebook have leaked the personal data of almost 87 millions users worldwide and also involved in collecting details of personal phone calls and text messages from millions of android users over years through its mobile application. These series of events have raised doubts among millions of users regarding the privacy and security of their personal and sensitive data over Facebook in the upcoming future also and several users are now restraining themselves from using Facebook. Facebook is now forced to change its privacy policy with new user-friendly settings in which the users will be able to control what data they want Facebook to collect from them and what not. 

Further recent revelations by Facebook about their data collection policy is far more shocking.  The data from millions of users are collected by Facebook even if they are rarely active or have never posted in Facebook. The fact that will give a huge shock is that Facebook even collects data of millions of people who do not have any Facebook account either. A blog post by Facebook's product management director David Baser explains in what way the personal information of users are collected and shared. Different types of services comprising of social plugins, Facebook logins to other accounts, Facebook Analytics and Facebook ads and measurement tools collect users' information from their vendors who uses Facebook's services and thus Facebook also have the details of a person who does not have any Facebook account. Seems horrifying isn't it? The fact is almost everyone is tracked and recorded somehow does not matter if he/she is a Facebook user or not. Thus Facebook collects each and every data from different apps, login sites and any domain that let you share or access something with Facebook login. The types of information collected as revealed by Baser comprises of computer's IP addresses, type of browser using to access the internet, software running on computer and other material. Thus Facebook collects information from ads and in return let them serve better ads in their platform and even Facebook itself uses this information to improve their own ads and to prevent bots. After revealing everything now David Baser is blaming other popular social medias in his blog that they also do the same and not Facebook is the only one doing it. The names mentioned by him includes Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Amazon and Google. They all have different share or ads or analytics services by which they also collect information from users and almost every other websites do the same. But the fact is even if they are collecting the information they are keeping and using the information without violating privacy of the users. A business should be always done in a clean manner with clients as clients are the base of your business. But Facebook in some cases is adopting unfair means of business and trying to run a monopoly business by disabling real traffic from users' fan pages in Facebook. It will be no time that people will soon get tired of Facebook and will choose any newly developed platform over it that provides data security, marketing and an excellent business facility and revenue. We Boldink Technologies promise to offer  very soon a better social media plaform for worldwide users providing the urgent need in respect to current situation.

Android user's personal phone details collection by facebook

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Every details of android users' phone calls and text messages have been collected by facebook over years

Another shocking news reported by website ars Technica is that facebook has been collecting every detail of personal phone calls and text messages data from android devices for years. On the otherhand facebook is denying this stating that they do not collect call and text message data without permission.

But it seems that the android Facebook app asked for permission to collect those data while installing which is often went unnoticed during installing. Similar permissions are also requested by android Messenger app during installing. Read the permissions asking by the app carefully before installing.

Privacy Breach in Social Media

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Breach of privacy by social media giant

Privacy is one of the most sensitive issue over internet in a huge social media site like facebook. Everyday millions of users share many sensitive data in facebook with the peace in mind that their data is safe according to facebook's privacy policy. But to the utter surprise of everyone, the CEO Mark Zuckerberg himself breached the privacy policy and shared lots of sensitive data of million of users.

Boldink Technologies Private Limited is going to launch their premiere product "BOLDink" very soon. It will provide the social platform and interaction with a far better experience than facebook. It will not waste your time like facebook but rather will nurture your creativity by our different academic and non-academic contents with guide to career prospects. This Indian product will surely protect the sensitive data of its all Indian users without any risk of breach, like done by a foreign company.