Social media collects more data than you think | Don’t try this at home, episode 6

📱Find out if social media is safe for data privacy 🤔 🚀 Improve your online privacy with a few clicks 📱👈 🔥 Get the exclusive YouTube offer: https://content.nordvpn.com/3KKq2o6 *** Social media platforms collect users’ data. But do they threaten users’ privacy? Is it safe to use social media platforms? What information are people willing to give away? NordVPN explores different social media platforms and investigates the risks to users’ privacy. Contents of the video: 00:00 Intro 00:46 Data collection in social media platforms 03:07 How much does online privacy cost? *** How much of your data would you reveal to a stranger for your convenience? To keep in touch with friends. Would you reveal your ethnicity, religious beliefs, or political leanings? For the first part of the experiment, let’s have a look at the information some social media platforms have on the NordVPN presenter. She starts with Facebook. She can see the posts she liked, and polls she has taken. Facebook also has a pretty good idea of a person’s whereabouts. What if it fell into the wrong hands? Let’s take a look at Twitter. Ok. Liked Tweets, and retweets – pretty obvious. But from that alone, anyone could create a pretty good picture of who someone is. While the specific data collected varies from website to website, if you put this all together, you’ll probably know someone better than they know themselves. People give away information without really thinking about it. Would we give up that information willingly? We usually do so without any obvious reward. But what if there was one? NordVPN created a survey on Twitter, asking if users would reveal their personal info to a stranger in exchange for free movie tickets, concert tickets, vouchers, or just… money. The majority of the respondents refused to give away their sensitive data. Yet there were some people willing to sacrifice their privacy for rewards. It’s impossible to hide all of your information from the internet unless you go off the grid. However, it’s possible to limit what you give away. Stay safe. *** 📌OUR SOCIAL MEDIA 📱 🔵FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/NordVPN/ 🔵INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/nordvpn/ 🔵TIKTOK: https://www.tiktok.com/@nordvpn 🔵TWITTER: https://twitter.com/NordVPN Check out NordVPN’s German and French channels ⏯️ 🌐 🇫🇷 @NordVPNenfrancais 🇩🇪 @NordVPNaufDeutsch #NordVPN #SocialMedia #DataCollection #Privacy