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Anonymous Messaging App Secret Raises Almost $10 Million - Digits. Do this now, before Facebook’s Graph Search embarrasses you. Well, crap.

Do this now, before Facebook’s Graph Search embarrasses you

Facebook launched search and now you have to figure out what is going to show up in searches around the globe. We feel your pain, so we’ve outlined just how privacy works in this crazy, Facebook world. When the social network announced its Search Graph yesterday, there was one word chief executive Mark Zuckerberg kept repeating: privacy. Rightfully so, as the social network holds information that sometimes you don’t even know is available about you. (Like the fact that your cousin still has that photo of you wearing a bathing suit and holding a wine glass.) What They Know - Mobile. Google's Privacy Policy Change Is Freaking Me Out. YC-Funded The Fridge Takes The Privacy Headaches Out Of Sharing With Friends. Back in the old days, Facebook was a site where college students could share photos of their youthful indiscretions without having to worry too much about their boss or parents stumbling across them.

YC-Funded The Fridge Takes The Privacy Headaches Out Of Sharing With Friends

That isn’t the case anymore. This isn’t an inherently bad thing — there’s a reason the site has over 500 million people — but there’s also room for startups to fill in the more private niches that Facebook doesn’t.