Cybersecurity Awareness Question of the Week: Social Media Privacy

Answer: A.

Most social networks are designed to be a means to harvest demographic data about people’s habits and interests. This data is then sold to advertisers and product/service vendors. To gather the most information about you, the default settings on most social networks is to share everything publicly. You need to check your settings and lock down aspects of your account that you don’t want shared openly with the public.