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Study says quitting social networks does not guarantee privacy
The research team from the universities of Vermont (United States) and Adelaide (Australia) focused on thirty million public publications made by 13,905 users of the social network Twitter and concluded that if a person ceases to be active, the publications and words of the your friends allow you to predict with 95 percent accuracy that person's future activities, even if they let them publish whatever they are.
The leader of the team, the mathematician James Bagrow, says that when joining a social network, if you think that is giving information only personal, but what happens is that "also gives friends" to Twitter, Facebook, Instagram or other social network.
One of the conclusions to be drawn is that companies, governments or other people can draw a strict profile of a person, including political party, preferred products or religion only from the information gathered between the friends, even if that person leaves social networks or never there has entered.
"We can not hide in a social network," said researcher Lewis Mitchell, co-author of the study published today in the scientific journal Nature Human Behavior.
"Just by itself, a person does not control their privacy on social networks," said James Bagrow, noting that "one's friends have something to say." Lusa Agency