Reply to post: Re: Not an FB user. Can I delete my personal data?

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Bill Gray

Re: Not an FB user. Can I delete my personal data?

I'm in a similar position. I'v never been on Facebook, but people have given FB my e-mail address so that I could receive an invitation to "be their friend". Examining their data, I'm sure FB has noted that many live in a particular part of the world, they lean in a particular direction politically, a bunch are interested in a particular area of science, and that they cluster around a particular age. You could make some reasonably solid guesses about where I live, my political leanings and scientific interests, etc. just from that data, none of which was willingly provided by me.

I'd be quite interested to know what data Facebook accumulates on non-users and, specifically, what non-users can do to restrict use of that data. It would be great if journalists from a tech news site investigated those questions and shared what they learned with us.

Oh, wait...

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