Facebook Quizzes

Developers of quizzes on Facebook require access to your account before you can play but are they worth your personal information?

16:30 01 December 2015

Recently, more than 17 million people on Facebook have taken a quiz called "My Most Used Words on FB." In order to participate, one must permit the developers to have access to their Facebook data and these include name, profile picture, age, sex, birthday, entire friend list, and all information and pictures posted on their timeline. It also includes hometown, education history, and everything that you have ever liked.

 

Vonvon is the South Korean company behind the quiz. Its chief executive Jonghwa Kim said that they only use Facebook data solely to make the quiz as good as it can be.

 

"We only use your information to generate your results, and we never store it for other purposes,"

 

"We do realise that some of our users are worried about their privacy protection. To accommodate these concerns proactively, we adjusted our scope of data requests to the minimum requirement to produce each separate content,"

 

However, security expert Lisa Vaas said that playing such quiz is not worth your personal information.

 

Writing in the Naked Security blog, she said: "As much fun as it is to see what cat you're most suited to or which Disney Princess is your soulmate; if you have to hand over the keys to your privacy to find out, repeat after me: it's not worth it."