"Board of shame" with users issuing private information



    Callum Haywood, an 18-year-old law student and PHP developer, has launched a real social experiment on We Know What You're Doing ( We Know What You Do). The site pulls information about individual users through the Facebook Graph API and puts it on public display. Moreover, it does not just lay out, but with a breakdown into categories: 1) a list of users who “want to be fired” with relevant quotes from the social network; 2) a list of users who are in a hangover with quotes and photos; 3) a list of those who have just smoked marijuana or took another drug; 4) a list of users who published their new phone number.

    Exposing users to ridicule, that is, for all to see, the founder of the service hopes to draw attention to the problem of leakage of private data via Facebook. Many users do not think that their personal information is in reality open to the whole world, and billions of inhabitants of the Earth can see their messages. A kind of "honor board" draws attention to such users, although there is no secret information from the sub-record entries, all this really lies in the public domain on Facebook and is accessible through a simple GET request of the type graph.facebook.com/search?q=hate%20my%20boss&type=post&locale=en_GB, to which the answer comes in JSON format. The site simply filters the information received and updates the status with a delay of about an hour.

    The meaning of the “honor board” is that it displays information that users would not want to show to everyone, but in practice they do just that. Maybe in this way people will be able to re-educate and they will learn to use the privacy settings?

    The website’s idea came from Tom Scott’s excellent presentation, “ I Know What You Did Five Minutes Ahead .”



    It is a pity that the site does not have a column with those Facebook users who read “Habrahabr”. For example, here is this user:
    http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?=743264506

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