"Board of shame" with users, issuing private information

18-year-old law student and PHP developer Colum Haywood (Callum Haywood) launched a real social experiment on the website We Know What You You're Doing (“We know what you are doing”). The site pulls information about individual users through the Facebook Graph API puts it on public display. And it puts it out for a reason, and broken down by category: 1) a list of users who “want to be dismissed” with relevant quotes from the social network; 2) a list of users who are in a hangover with quotes and photos; 3) a list of those who just lit up marijuana or took another drug; 4) a list of users who published their new phone number.

By exposing users to ridicule, that is, for all to see, the founder of the service hopes to draw attention to the problem of leakage of private data through Facebook. Many users do not think that their personal information is actually open to the whole world, and billions of people on Earth can see their messages. A kind of “board of honor” draws attention to such users, although there is no secret information from the sub-home records, it all really lies in the public access on Facebook and is available through a simple GET request like graph.facebook.com/search?q=hate%20my%20boss&type=post&locale=en_GB graph.facebook.com/search?q=hate%20my%20boss&type=post&locale=en_GB , to which comes the response JSON-format. The site simply filters the information received and updates the statuses about an hour late.

The meaning of the “board of honor” is that it shows information that users would not want to demonstrate to everyone in a row, but in practice they do just that. Maybe in this way people will be able to re-educate and they will learn to use the privacy settings?
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The idea for the website came from a wonderful presentation by Tom Scott " I know what you did five minutes ago ."



It is a pity that the site does not have a column with those Facebook users who read Habrahabr. For example, here is this user:
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?=743264506