Statements about Privacy

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False

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"Hackers are posting sexual videos and pictures on your (Facebook) walls! You don’t see them, but your friends do, then it seems as if you posted it."

— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Wednesday, April 3rd, 2019

Mostly False

That's exaggerated

Evans

"Constituents now face reality that all their personal issues will be made public" under Clean Missouri.

— PolitiFact Missouri on Thursday, December 6th, 2018

Mostly False

Helping hand or Trojan horse?

Khanna

"Amazon Echo is recording every conversation in a person's home and transmitting it to the cloud."

— PolitiFact National on Thursday, May 31st, 2018

Mostly False

Misleading claims

Democratic Party

Arizona Democratic Party

"Congresswoman Martha McSally voted to let companies sell your internet data to the highest bidder without your consent. Then she got paid $42,000 by the very corporations she allowed to sell your personal info."

— PolitiFact Arizona on Wednesday, April 11th, 2018

Mostly False

No confirmed release of data

Blocker

Says the Texas Department of Agriculture didn’t notify over 700 Texas students about a computer hack releasing critical personal information including Social Security numbers until 32 days after the breach.

— PolitiFact Texas on Monday, February 5th, 2018