Facebook is one of the largest and commonly used social networks in the world. Many

people young or old, institutions, religious groups and all other types of groups embrace

Facebook in order to communicate and share information. Facebook has recently been abused by

some malicious users due to the high number of users in the social network. A lot of personal

data is available on Facebook which can be accessed by so many people meaning that

infringement of personal rights is possible. This has resulted to Facebook administrators to adopt

a user information policy that will help them manage this personal data and also use it for

various reasons.

The current user information policy that is adopted by Facebook entails collection of

personal data and recording of various activities that a user is involved in. Some of the

information, which is collected, includes the information about the things that a user does and

also the type of information that he/she provides (Marichal, 2012). This includes details about

the time one signs up, the message sent to others and even the content you provide. The other

type of information that they collect is the information about the things other people engage in

including the time they share your photo. They are also able to check your network connectivity

and the groups and pages that you are in so that they can know the type of people you interact

with. They are also able to record the information about the devices that one is using like the

mobile phones and computers as well as the connectivity and locations like GPS, Wi-Fi signals

and time zones among others….