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Facebook is the world’s largest social network. Before you sign up, make sure you know what information they store about
you and how it can be used.

Facebook will attempt to

• Track your location
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• Track all your phone calls and texts (who you talk to and when)
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• Track much of what you do on the internet
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• Log most of what you do on Facebook
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With this data, Facebook may be able to

• Guess where you live, work and spend your time

• Guess who your friends and family are

• Guess who you live with and meet with in real life

• Guess your political affiliations

• Guess your sexual orientation

• Guess what times you work and sleep

• Understand exactly what you’re interested in

• Estimate what your financial situation is like

You should know that

• Facebook makes money by giving companies, organizations and foreign powers the ability to show you ads based on what Facebook
  knows about you. These ads may try to change your opinion or make you buy something.

• Facebook uses design tricks to make you give up more personal information than you may have initially intended to.
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• Facebook will run experiments on you to change your feelings or make you use Facebook more.
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