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Facebook May Highlight App Permissions for Contact Info, Prevent Minors from Sharing. Facebook has responded to Congressman Ed Markey’s questions about its plan to allow users to grant applications access to their phone number and home addresses. The response explains that Facebook is considering answering widespread criticism of the plan by highlighting contact information requests in the permissions screen and barring apps from asking minors for this info. On January 14th, Facebook announced in a post on its Developers Blog that it would begin allowing users to authorize applications to access their mobile phone number and home address through that standard “Requests for Permission” dialog that users see when installing apps. Inside Facebook and others criticized the plan, saying that though it would facilitate innovation, requests for such sensitive data should be more prominent within the permissions flow. On January 18th, Facebook temporarily disabled contact info requests based on the criticism and feedback from users.

Facebook iPhone app shares all your phone numbers - MicroChick. Update: Facebook has since responded to this story. Due to the length of their response, you can read it in full on this new post.Facebook is, once again, embroiled in a privacy mess: The social network is reportedly publishing your private phone numbers to any and everyone without telling you. If you have an iPhone and have used the Facebook app to sync your contact information, it's possible that all your friends contact details are now on the social network. Update: The application apparently displays a warning that says the numbers are being imported into Facebook.

The warning reads: "If you enable this feature, all contacts from your device (name, email address, phone number) will be sent to Facebook and be subject to Facebook's Privacy Policy, and your friends' profile photos and other info from Facebook will be added to your iPhone address book. Please make sure your friends are comfortable with any use you make of their information. " But The Guardian's Arthur reports that: Facebook detects if you are logged in Gmail. Facebook Privacy: Social Network Tracks Users After They Leave Site; Congress, FTC. Are You Using Facebook with an Encrypted Session Yet? WARNING: Change this New Facebook Privacy Setting ASAP! (VIDEO) By – January 27, 2011Posted in: Facebook, Media, NEWS ROOM, Random, SOCIAL MEDIA, VIRAL CONTENT Account Security on Facebook is Super Important! Ok this is SUPER IMPORTANT! Thanks to an article in Gawker that I just read we will all know how to do it. Basically it’s called Facebook HTTPS and it enables a more secured way to browse Facebook when you are on an unprotected wireless network.

Here’s a line from the article that really caught my attention: This is obviously a MUST so be sure to make this change in your privacy settings ASAP. Facebook is still rolling out the feature so if it’s not in your account yet it will be in a few days. Here are the steps… - STEP #1: Go To This link: - STEP #2: click ‘Account Security’ - STEP #3: Click the box for “Secure Browsing (HTTPS)” - STEP #4: Feel more safe in the world:) Here’s a Youtube video that Facebook created which outlines the new security features: About the Author. A Brief Guide on Privacy Settings for Facebook. When it comes to social networking these days, privacy is of the utmost importance. Nowadays, the most popular social networking sites are Facebook and Twitter. If you use either of these websites for anything then it is important that you understand the privacy settings fully. If you do not then you are putting yourself at risk of several things happening.

The first thing that you are putting yourself at risk of is hackers. Hackers will do whatever they can to gain access to your personal information. As you can see, this menu is entirely customizable. First of all is the ‘Posts by me’ section. The ‘Family and Relationships’ section is another one that is best kept private. When it comes to the photos and videos I am tagged in section, there are several options available. You should remember that when you first sign up for Facebook your privacy settings will be set to default. A Brief Guide on Privacy Settings for Facebook.

7 Ways to Protect Your Facebook Page from Identity Thieves. Identity thieves and hackers are finding that Facebook is a goldmine for phishing schemes, and they are targeting Facebook accounts more than email accounts now. Most people are completely unaware of the information on their profile’s that is available to would-be hackers, and it is this ignorance that is leading to more accounts being compromised every day. S o what can you do to make sure that your Facebook account is protected from identity thieves?

Here are 7 tips to help keep your account under lock and key. 1. Yes, it’s nice to have your friends all wish you a happy birthday, but it’s not worth the serious security risk that it presents. 2. Often hackers will be able to get into your Facebook account as well as your email account, so if you only have one email account you will be left stranded. 3. This may seem obvious, but people still use the same passwords for everything. Use different passwords for every account you have online, and make those passwords hard to guess. 4. 5. 6. Facebook Adds More Mobile Privacy Control. Facebook Is Tracking Your Every Move on the Web; Here's How to Stop It. Facebook’s New Way Of Using You As Free Advertising (& How To Stop It) [News]

Actions such as checking into places, clicking “Like” on a page, application interactions and posting on Facebook pages can be then used as marketing ammo, sending targeted recommendations to your friends featuring your name and profile picture. Users who are featured in the adverts won’t be paid a penny. This new way for advertisers to target their audience on a startlingly personal level quietly launched in January, and (in a move that’s angered many) each Facebook user’s account, by default, allows this to happen.

Despite many voicing their concerns, Facebook insists that this new breed of social advertising falls in line with its current privacy policy. 8 Steps to Facebook Photo Privacy, According to Facebook Engineer (We're Still Confused) Let's get this out of the way first: yes, we found this on Quora, the Q&A service poised for media overhype as the second coming of Twitter or blogging or journalism or whatever. But it was an interesting nugget of information from someone in the know and seemed worthy of sharing. According to Justin Mitchell, an engineer on Facebook Photos, photo privacy on the social network is complex. "Really complex," he says.

"Probably 10 people in the world intimately understand the privacy calculations involved when you attempt to view a photo on Facebook. Is A Facebook Photo Visible? The list below, said Mitchell, is a checklist where the first item for which the condition is met will determine the visibility of a photo posted to Facebook (profiles only, though, not Pages). This is what he wrote: Is it your photo? There is already some debate on the thread about whether or not this list is 100% accurate, but since it's coming from someone at Facebook who would know, we believe it is. ?

Will you? Give Me My Data | A Facebook application to reclaim your information. Facebook Now Allows You To “Download Your Information” Whoah. Until now there hasn’t been a way to download info off of Facebook, but at today’s Facebook event in Palo Alto, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a feature that allows users to port their data from Facebook in a .zip file, “People own and have control over all info they put into Facebook and “Download Your Information” enables people to take stuff with them,” says Zuckerberg.

“Download Your Information” is groundbreaking as the premise behind the Diaspora Project is that it is the “open” portable Facebook. As of today it seems like Facebook is the “open” portable Facebook, as the company now feels secure enough to let users leave with info intact. Downloading your profile in this way does not delete it from the site, but simply provides you with a copy. Recordon emphasizes that the product will be simple enough for laymen to use, a one click process. “Download Your Information” should be rolling out to all users beginning today. Download Your Entire Facebook History With The New Data Downloader. Now it is possible to download every single bit of information you have put on Facebook, including pictures, status updates, events and messages.

This is undoubtedly the control many users have been looking for, and provides a nice “grab and go” option for those fed up with the service. The feature should have rolled out to most accounts by now, but if it’s still not working for you then you’ll just have to be patient and wait your turn. Why Do I Want All That Data? Maybe you’re just fed up with Facebook. You’ve been using the service for years and have watched it transform from a useful tool for organising parties into a popularity contest for the under 15′s. You want to jump ship. Well now you can do that, except before you jump you can pack up all your data and download your Facebook history.

I just enjoyed looking at old status updates to be honest. Download Instructions You’ll find instructions to download the data in your Account Settings page. Ding! Conclusion. Facebook Launches Download Your Information. Dear online advertisers, stop following me. It’s creepy. When I noticed an online ad promising "The Secrets to Long, Lush Asian Hair" recently, I rolled my eyes. I already have the secret to Asian hair: be Asian.

This ad, however, would not be avoided. I saw it on every site I visited, on Facebook, news sites, Google. It began to wear me down, so I clicked on it, briefly perusing its vague claims. Later, I was casually chatting about it with a colleague, laughing about the content. "You haven't seen it? I was mortified that I hadn't figured it out. The easiest to understand, he says, are ads tailored to our professed interests - what we list, for example, as our interests on Facebook. "Maybe the inference was wrong," Smith admits about my case.