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500,000 Danish Facebook users visible to “Big Brother”

Posted on June 10, 2011July 2, 2025 by Dissent

Do you know who’s watching you on Facebook? Despite the raft of security measures put in place to restrict who can see the information you post, many people are oblivious of to how to alter their privacy settings.

So says a new survey from Statistics Denmark that showed that 22 percent of the 2.2 million Danish Facebook users didn’t know how to change their privacy settings.

Facebook profiles are fully public until the privacy settings are changed, meaning the information on accounts of almost 500,000 Danes is publicly available.

 

Read more in The Copenhagen Post.

 

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