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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Facebook App Accused Of Asking For Too Much Of Your Info [Watch (HLS stream): Facebook App Accused Of Asking For Too Much Of Your Info](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/TvaCHyk5.m3u8) (1:10)  _Published 2015-11-25. An app that shows you the words that you use most often on Facebook shouldn't be that controversial, but the amount of information it requests may be._ --- Jul 27, 2023 7:13 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [WhatsApp to share data with Facebook](/video/zhKUgIQG/) ### WhatsApp to share data with Facebook [Facebook Is Planning Virtual Reality Apps For Everyone](/video/ncI9ZLvX/) ### Facebook Is Planning Virtual Reality Apps For Everyone [Facebook is Bringing Internet to Zambia With New App](/video/5Yb6xd1e/) ### Facebook is Bringing Internet to Zambia With New App --- ## Transcript Within its first five days of launching 17. 5 million people had tried Vonvon's most used words quiz on Facebook, but once suspicions emerged that the quiz was selling users' personal information, that pace slowed to a crawl. The service lets Facebook users see what words they used the most in 2015 on the site If the price of that information was some of your's. Among Vonvon's many requests was your entire friends list, photos, likes, and education history. It caused somewhat of an uproar with news sites calling it a breech of your personal data and a privacy Privacy nightmare. But does the quiz site deserve the backlash? Vonvon's president told Time the idea was to request user info at one time so later quizzes the site offers wouldn't have to ask. Also, the company says it does not sell user data. All revenue comes from partnerships and ads. A privacy group did tell TIME, though, without looking at every single line of code, you can't be 100 percent sure. Only time will tell if vonvon bounces back from the bad PR, or if it will hurt its reputation and its business. After all, Facebook has long shown users how to shield their private data from apps. Protecting your data might be in Facebook's best interest. 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