Social media information and data collection and security
weird, but apparently it is important to them. Using your name they can look you up on other
people’s address book. Since snapchat needs access to you mobile photo album, they collect
these photos aswell on the go. Of course, location, for using some geo filters but also for
tracking. Using beacons they can for example track people in stores. Snapchat also have
access to cookies, which is weird because cookies are related to browser. They also know you
email, credit card number, if snapcash is used, everything about the snaps that are send and
what kind of phone is used. While all the data is anonymous, snapchat only info that may be
useful to advertisers.
What they do with this information
When thinking about how much data they are collecting, it seems unreasonable at first. How
can you possibly work through that and what are the benefits of this. Since social media is all