Privacy
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There’s no denying it: Facebook is everywhere. (At least 41.6% of Americans currently have an account.) Still, the massively popular site’s ever-changing privacy and security policies can make it difficult to assume the appropriate safety precautions. That’s why we’ve created the ultimate primer for your Facebook safety needs.
Social Media Safety Belt: How to Navigate Facebook Settings - ZoneAlarm Blog
How Privacy Vanishes Online, a Bit at a Time - NYTimes.com
Probably not. Yet people often dole out all kinds of personal information on the Internet that allows such identifying data to be deduced. Services like , and Flickr are oceans of personal minutiae — birthday greetings sent and received, school and work gossip, photos of family vacations, and movies watched. Computer scientists and policy experts say that such seemingly innocuous bits of self-revelation can increasingly be collected and reassembled by computers to help create a picture of a person’s identity, sometimes down to the Social Security number. “Technology has rendered the conventional definition of personally identifiable information obsolete,” said Maneesha Mithal, associate director of the Federal Trade Commission’s privacy division. “You can find out who an individual is without it.”
Never trust profile pictures [video] - Holy Kaw!
We all know the infamous “MySpace angle” of profile pictures, and who can ignore the slew of pouty-mouthed snapshots on Facebook? Well, universally flattering angle, the gig is up. Heck, even Samsung knows the tricks of the profile pic trade and calls out the most common photo maneuvers in a new ad. Quite clever, Samsung.