Hard Questions is a series from Facebook that addresses the impact of our products on society.

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By David Baser, Director of Product Management

Mobile phones have become our digital backpacks. They hold our address books, maps, to do lists, photos and increasingly, our wallets. And in today’s connected world, we often share this information with apps and online services without a second thought.

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This has obvious benefits. We can take a picture on our iPhone and quickly share it to Instagram or Snapchat or Twitter. We can upload our Gmail contacts to Paperless Post and invite friends to a party. And we can sync our Fitbit with a Nike app to track our health. These options make our lives easier and they’re made possible by an ecosystem of platforms, including the Facebook Platform, that let us share our information with other apps and services directly. This data portability is also powered by tools like Facebook’s Download Your Information, which lets you to create a copy of your information on our platform to then store on your computer or upload to another service.

Some of the world’s most popular apps have been built on the Facebook Platform — it’s helped great ideas get off the ground and simplified and streamlined people’s digital lives. But we know that this flow of information has the potential for abuse. Bad actors can gather information from people and use it in ways that they aren’t aware of and didn’t agree too, like selling personal data to marketers. Facebook has clear policies against this, but as we saw with the Cambridge Analytica situation, bad actors are more than willing to ignore these policies in pursuit of their own objectives.

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