Single slide lesson: Third party login

This slide looks at the information a user provides when logging into an account using a third party like Facebook or Twitter. It discusses the ways this benefits all three parties – the user, the site being logged into and the third party that verifies the user’s identity. In return, the user gives up some privacy and is in danger of creating a “filter bubble,” where he or she only sees homogeneous information.

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What “they” know about you and how they use it

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Concepts: information we give up voluntarily, information we reveal while using the Internet, use of information “signals” in search, advertising and suggesting “friends,” data mining, filter bubble, what you get in return for privacy

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