Posts Tagged ‘Privacy’

Facebook Privacy Scanner

Monday, May 17th, 2010

Facebook’s privacy settings are notoriously complex, in fact they’re a complete nightmare.  Fortunately an enterprising coder has come up with a nifty little tool that scans your settings and recommends changes.

Check it out here: http://www.reclaimprivacy.org/facebook

(Thanks to my buddy Steve for pointing it out!)

Facebook Privacy Settings

Sunday, February 8th, 2009

After a brief conversation about online privacy at work on Friday, I’d been meaning to look into the various privacy settings available to Facebook users. 

After a bit of Googling I found this post by Nick O’Neill.  It’s a pretty good overview so I though I’d pass it on.  Whilst ‘locking down’ your profile does make sense, I do wonder how much of the value social networking has would vanish if everyone did it. 

Anyways, if you use Facebook it’s worth a read:

http://www.allfacebook.com/2009/02/facebook-privacy/