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		walid on July 1, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Never Trust Facebook Its not what people can know about you, but rather how much of what they know is controlled by you. You can put out there all the info you want to make public, but if you change your mind, facebook will still keep your data.

dfc on July 1, 2013 [–]

He was in control of the data and then he relinquished control of the data when he shared it with facebook (and google, twitter, github and HN).

Trusting facebook to prevent Eve from accessing to your data is not the same thing as controlling Eve's access to your data.

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