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Facebook Cambridge Analytica data scandal: We are giving away way too much data to apps on Facebook and Android than needed. The world seems to have suddenly woken up to the perils of offering our data free to tech companies. But the fact is that the Cambridge Analytica incident is not really a surprise. It has just reinforced what most of us believed all along, that our data will be misused. But then we did not raise as much as a byte-size sigh in protest. But it is time to ask some important questions. Why does a game app for instance, need to know which school you went to or where you work? Why does a one-time DP change require you to surrender your friends list? And you will realise that you are giving away way too much data to apps on Facebook and Android than needed. To be fair, both the platforms have links where you can see what they know about you and even offer some options to edit the same. You should start using these to figure out what thes...

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