A seven-year study from Carnegie Mellon University revealed that
Facebook (
FB) users actually shared more personal data after
the company made some controversial privacy changes. Researchers found that
modifications to the site’s interface and default privacy settings led to a “significant increase” in users disclosing personal information to Facebook, third-party apps and advertisers,
PHYS.org reported. The study found that while the company’s privacy changes may have increased a user’s feeling of being in control of his or her data. At the same time, the changes led to confusion that increased the “disclosures of sensitive information to strangers.”
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