Facebook: most users have had their profile data scraped; Cambridge Analytica scandal...

[Squid Surprise]

Actually it does still belong to you. This entire incident wouldn't be scandal if that was the case. A lot of that data wasn't publicly available on peoples pages. That's the reason this is a big issue.

No, it doesn't.... It's a scandal because it looks bad for Facebook to be releasing the data to other companies.... But if you read the fine print on your Facebook agreement, you'll realize that everything you post belongs to them.

 

[ET3D]

And why are there any photos of you online for people to tag?!? If you're not comfortable with the entire world seeing your picture - DON'T put it on the Internet!!!

The entire point was that I didn't put any photo on the internet. If you're going to get out of every group photo anyone you know is taking, or ask every time a photo is taken that it's not to be published online, then fine, but that has nothing to do with your own activity on Facebook.

You can set your privacy to where people can't tag you

I'm not sure what the specific option for that is, but your comment did make me go to Facebook and change some privacy options. At this point it looks like there are 7 photos with me tagged in them, 6 from 2008 and one from 2011. Also it's hard to find a photo of me on Google, which wasn't true 10 or 20 years ago.

But if you read the fine print on your Facebook agreement, you'll realize that everything you post belongs to them.

The terms specifically say: 'You own all of the content and information you post on Facebook'. So I'm not sure what you're basing this on.