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Facebook Revamps Privacy Settings Again

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Facebook announced a series of new privacy settings in an effort to make it easier to share posts, photos, tags and other content with greater control of who sees it.

One of the nicer things about the updates is the controls are moved to your profile page, inline with posts, photos and the tags they affect. This ...

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Blocking Facebook Face Reconition

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I just read this article on Fast Company’s site. Technology continues to advance at a dizzying pace and now face recognition on Facebook is another development.  While there is benefit to being alerted when Facebook thinks a picture of yo

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Protect Your Information by Reading the Fine Print

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You can better protect your personal information, and identity, simply by reading the fine print (RTFP).

Facebook has received a lot of bad press about their privacy practices. They share a lot of your personal information with hundreds, perhaps thousands of vendors.

People were upset to learn that information they thought of theirs, became the property of Facebook and other social media sites.
There were stories of uploaded personal pictures showing up on billboards as advertisements.

$30 million for your photos

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Stop Doing These Things On Facebook

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Privacy issues have been at the forefront of the news for the better part of the last year.  Facebook is the lightening rod for privacy because of their <fill in with your adjective of choice> privacy policies.

A recent article in ConsumerReports.org cites 7 Things to Stop Doing Now on Facebook.  Here’s a summary

1.  Stop Using a Weak Password
- with technology today, using something you can remember is no longer necessary

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