45 Privacy Changes Facebook Will Make To Comply With Data Protection Law. In 2012, Facebook will be making 45 privacy-related changes to comply with the recommendations of an audit by Ireland’s Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) released today. Below I’ve compiled a roadmap of all the changes Facebook will implement based on the the 149 pages of DPC recommendations and how the social network says it will address them. First, read my analysis of the audit’s findings from this morning. It explains why these changes won’t seriously interfere with Facebook’s business model or product development.
That’s very good news for Facebook. Still, complying with the audit’s recommendations could prevent the company from building a huge stockpile of historical data for some unknown later use. The changes mostly deal with how long Facebook retains data, and how people are educated about Facebook’s usage of that data. Some will require engineering work, such as irrevocably deleting user data within 40 days of an account deletion request. Access Requests Security. Facebook Settles With FTC To Make New Privacy Changes Opt-In. Facebook has reached an agreement with the FTC to make all future changes to privacy settings opt-in, presumably including new features with their own privacy controls.
The Wall Street Journal wrote that the social network was nearing a settlement on the issue and now its Marketplace editor Dennis K. Berman says that settlement is for new privacy controls to be opt in. The agreement could limit Facebook’s ability to drive adoption of new features, as they won’t be able to immediately go viral. Users rarely visit their privacy settings, so Facebook will need to devise a way to get them to do so. We’ve reached Facebook’s Director of Public Policy Andrew Noyes in an attempt to confirm the settlement, but he responded saying “We’re declining to comment.” Facebook has come under fire from the FTC and privacy advocates for a pushing users through a transition tool in December 2009 that made public some previously private information such as a user’s Likes.
Facebook Launches Trusted Friends and App Passwords Security Features to Reduce Lock Out. As part of National Cyber Security Awareness Month, Facebook has begun the rollout of two new security features to help users regain access to their accounts if they’re locked out and let them access third-party applications safely. Trusted Friends lets locked out users have an access code sent to their close friends. App Passwords lets users bypass the Login Approvals security feature that doesn’t work with some apps by using a unique app-specific password. Facebook users can sometimes be locked out of their accounts by Facebook’s automated security systems that occasionally produce false positives, as well as by hackers. Users who know about these new features and take the time to enable them will benefit from a reduced chance of being blocked from their account.
Trusted Friends builds on Facebook’s Social Authentication security feature that lets users regain access to their accounts by identifying friends in photos — something very difficult for a hacker to do. Facebook Security Improvements Coming Soon: Trusted Friends And Application Passwords. Facebook announced two new features to help improve security for its 800 million-plus users: trusted friends, and application passwords. If you’ve ever left a set of keys with a close friend who lives nearby, in case yours are lost, the concept of trusted friends will be familiar to you.
The social network will let users choose three to five friends to contact if they are ever locked out of their Facebook accounts. Codes will be sent to those friends, and users can regain access to their accounts with those codes. As for application passwords, rather than accessing Facebook apps with their credentials via the social network, users can elect to specify separate passwords for apps. To do this, users must go to account settings, click the security tab, and enter the app passwords section.
Facebook said trusted friends and app passwords will be rolled out to users “in the coming weeks.” Meanwhile, Facebook has this to say about trusted friends and app passwords: 6 Privacy Problems In Facebook’s Updates: Infographic. 5 Ways to Control Your Facebook Privacy. Facebook is trying to make privacy simpler. But as they add more features, . With the addition of the , understanding how your Facebook privacy works is more important than ever. The good news is that Facebook is making it simpler to . The bad news is that there’s a lot of confusion around the Subscribe button and what it means for privacy.
So let’s . #1: The Facebook Subscribe button You can choose to subscribe to someone who has allowed subscribers. Whenever you update your personal profile, you can : public, friends or custom. . Click Allow Subscribers to start the process. Once you click Allow Subscribers, you have some settings to configure. Edit your subscriber settings. When you allow subscribers, . Change your post settings when needed. You may just . But realize that if you do subscribe to them, your name is listed as a subscriber for public information. Your name and profile picture are publicly listed as a subscriber. #2: Changing your Facebook privacy settings It’s a good idea to . (6) How to Get More Subscribers. Facebook Struggles to Explain Its Web-Tracking Practices. Facebook’s business is built on trust, but that trust has been shaken over the past few weeks by criticism and speculation regarding how it uses browser cookies to get data about users.
A lack of thorough documentation explaining what each of its cookies does has led some observers to assume that the company is tracking offsite browsing behavior in order to target ads. Facebook needs to provide explanations for both the average user and privacy researchers about how exactly its cookies work in order to prevent these press flare-ups from giving users a negative impression and bringing on regulatory scrutiny from governments. Some bloggers claim cookies left by Facebook and third-party sites that integrate its social plugins indicate that the company is tracking users’ web browsing behavior, then using that data to target ads in a way that violates user privacy.
Facebook could have avoided much of the crises by being more transparent about it how it uses cookies. Facebook Privacy: 3 Fights to Expect When You Get the New Timeline. As an adult, you have responsibilities — an income, maybe a mortgage, possibly children. That’s great! Congrats. Now is certainly not the time to be throwing caution to the wind — just know that Facebook will be doing that for you. The Facebook Timeline resurfaces information you thought permanently buried, or at least, tucked away in a booze-soaked archive called college or your mid-twenties.
SEE ALSO: Is Facebook Trying to Kill Privacy? Just when you thought you’d survived all Facebook-related quarrels, the new timeline is sure to expose more hurt feelings and suspicions. Here are the three people you'll likely butt heads with, and some tips to ensure your post-Timeline privacy remains intact. 1. Deep down in your social graph, those old photos and status updates with ex-boyfriends or girlfriends are hiding. SEE ALSO: Facebook Timeline: Here’s What It Looks Like [VIDEO] Now each of our profiles will become a “virtual scrapbook.” My advice? 2. 3. The New Facebook: How to Take Control of Your Privacy. Facebook took a huge step toward ubiquitous sharing with its new timeline and sharing features. And it rightfully creeps some people out. Not everybody wants to share their life story on their profile, see their friends' activities in real time or have their preferences in music, movies and reading shared as they're consuming media. But to Facebook's credit, it has tread into a new level of sharing with some caution.
In many ways, its privacy settings are more accessible. If you're bothered by some new features, however, it might take a couple of clicks that are less than intuitive to opt out of them. Your Friends See What You Watch, Listen to and Read Through partnerships with more than a dozen companies, Facebook has added TV, movies and music. The Washington Post has also created "social reader" apps that encourage users to connect with each other around the news from its content partners and discover content from friends. Apps Can Share Your Activity Without Asking. Facebook Privacy and Settings. 8 Critical Ways To Protect Your Privacy On The New Facebook. As some of you have already noticed, Facebook just rolled out a huge revamp of some of its core features like News Feed, while adding new features like Smart Lists and News Ticker.
Business Insider put together a great list of privacy settings that you should pay attention to on these new features: Know that anything you post or comment on a friend’s wall is public. Your posts will show up in others’ News TickersRemember to check sharing settings before you post an update.Be very careful adding people to your Smart Lists associated with work or study. They’ll get notified.Go to your profile and click “View As…” Then click “public” to see how your profile looks to the world.Subscribing does not equal stalking someone you’re not friends with.
Read the full article on Business Insider to see screenshots and examples of where to find all of these settings: Related posts: Do we really care about our online privacy? - TNW Insider. According to an infographic shared on Search Engine Journal, over 2 million photos are posted to Facebook during any given 20 minute period, 7 billion pieces of content are shared weekly and 3,500 images are uploaded to Flickr every minute.
With these stats helping to demonstrate that an immense amount of personal content is being shared online, you would think that people would be concerned about ensuring that information doesn’t fall into the wrong hands, or that it can’t be used or exploited for advertising purposes. The reality, however, is very different. Facebook Facebook has to be the biggest proof that the majority of people online simply don’t care about their privacy, as long as they’re getting what they want in return.When Facebook makes major changes to its privacy settings, which are usually never in favour of its users, some express outrage, blog posts are written, status updates are copied and pasted, and threats of boycotts are made.
Browser extensions Terms of service. Facebook Previews Privacy Settings, Posts And Tags. Making It Easier to Share With Who You Want (4) Facebook’s new privacy and sharing defenses (they are quite nice) Mark Zuckerberg is the smartest social thinker I’ve met on my journey through life. He’s frequently misunderstood because he’s, well, generally too far in front of us. I remember meeting Doug Engelbart, the guy who invented the mouse (and showed it to us back in 1967 — way before Apple shipped the first consumer machine in 1984 that used it). Engelbart got kicked out of the research lab (SRI) where he developed the mouse because, well, his ideas were too weird for the time (Engelbart told me that he was kicked out because his fellow researchers couldn’t grok that everyone would have a computer in their pockets eventually). Zuckerberg will also be judged that way.
But one thing I admire about Zuckerberg is he’s a great learner. Zuckerberg understands that the use case of Facebook is for folks to talk to their PRIVATE families and friends. So, what did Facebook announce this morning? Several things that will greatly appeal to its user base: 1. 1. And This is my favorite new feature. 2. 3. Why You Should Change your Privacy Settings on Facebook. Facebook prides itself on allowing you to share all kinds of information with your friends and family, and by default there many privacy features that are turned off that you might want to turn on once you realize what is at stake. One of the biggest privacy features that I had to change right away is allowing my “friends” to check me in with “People here now”.
It seems absolutely crazy to allow other people to be able to check you in different places, especially considering that someone might check you into a place when you are somewhere else. Allowing people to know where you are might seem like a fun way to connect with other people, but when you don’t have total control over this feature things can get messy. Who knows why Facebook has this on by default. Another privacy setting I like to change is to make sure my email address and phone number are not publicly listed on my profile page.
So what’s wrong with a little privacy invasion on Facebook? 10 risky default settings in social media that you need to check - TNW Social Media. Do you read every single “Terms of Service” you come across before clicking “I Agree” to? If you’re anything like me, the answer is no. In fact, I’ve agreed to hundreds since I first started using AOL 14 years ago, but I haven’t read one. Should we be more careful? I try to align myself with respectable websites — using services that many others use. But as online industry grows, and we sign up for one social network after the other, we can’t forget that we’re trusting our sensitive information to corporations. 1. By default, LinkedIn can use your name and photo in its advertising campaigns. Their reasons for using your likeness are obvious. 2. Facebook is infamous for its nebulous privacy policies.
Manage your inclusion in ads: Account > Account Settings > Facebook Ads 3. While you’re at it, you may want to do two more things: 1) Check out your active Facebook sessions and end any that seem risky. Account > Account Settings > Security > Active Sessions. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Safety Center (3) How to Keep People from Seeing Your Facebook Info - Lifehacker. Privacy Breach: 2 Settings You Need to Check NOW. Understanding Facebook's new privacy changes - great news for parents at Cool Mom Tech. It doesn’t seem like a week goes by without Facebook making more changes to its privacy settings.
The company gets a lot of flak for seemingly loosey-goosey privacy policies, but the forthcoming changes (and there are a lot of them) may put all of our minds more at ease. There are several changes that have already started rolling out on the site, basically to make profiles more private and give users more choice in how we share our content and who we share it with. Here are the ones I think are the most important–and that are long overdue: Improved Profile and Posting Privacy Settings: Adjusting settings on your profile in the past required click-throughs and navigation through your settings tab. Now, everything that you want to post–your hometown, your occupation, relationship status–has a drop-down menu next to it where you can delineate who you want seeing it. The same goes for posts and status updates.