Facebook held a meeting last Thursday to review user privacy concerns and shortly thereafter launched two “privacy” tools to protect account-holders from scammers and alert users to suspicious activity. Unlike the new exposure of personal data that was imposed as a new default, these protections were not added as a default, which suggests to me [...]

Facebook will tell you that it is concerned about your privacy, but from my perspective as a user, it seems that the frequent changes in how facebook handles privacy are doing nothing but erode the privacy of its users. The most recent assault on privacy came with a message asking users to confirm which pages [...]

Protecting Your Privacy on facebook Social media is designed for sharing. It is that simple. It facilitates giving information to other people. So what about your privacy – how do you protect it? The information here is specific to facebook, but the same general advice applies to all social media. There are some things you [...]