Internet Purification Practices

Privacy is using bathroom with closed doors, but security is not revealing what you are doing inside.

I was really concerned with the dubious policies of internet companies on our terms of use for their free services form a long time. But, recent exposure of Cambridge Analytica for exploiting users’ data from Facebook to develop psychological profile on users for political agenda and gain during 2016 election campaign in US have really motivated me to completely examine my stature on internet, and how safe I actually am. This has led me to discover some really scary company policies and practices that endanger my privacy and security on internet.

Data recorded by companies:

To completely check what Facebook has recorded about me, I first downloaded my user data archive, which anyone can for their own account. This data itself revealed a lot more than I can ever think of. The data was from an account that I used for 2 years, and it revealed things like timeline history, contacts, personal info, login history, photos, location and private messages. And to be completely honest, I didn’t even knew if some of them ever existed!

Of all these details, messages are the most privates ones, which Facebook have on me. My messages revealed some pretty nasty things which I thought were private and was only sent to the person I was chatting with. These messages are stored on Facebook’s data centers in form of text, images, emojis and videos as well. I regret sending some of…