![]() ![]() The data for this chart was derived from my interpretation of the Facebook Terms of Service over the years, along with my personal memories of the default privacy settings for different classes of personal data. I hope your takeaway from this infographic isn't "I'm deleting my account" rather, I hope it's "I'm checking my privacy settings right now, and changing them to a level with which I'm comfortable". It's helped me reconnect with dozens of people with whom I'd lost touch, and I admire the work their team does. Let me be clear about something: I like Facebook. It's a great overview, but I was a little disappointed it wasn't an actual timeline: hence my initial inspiration for this infographic. This blog post by Kurt Opsahl at the the EFF gives a brief timeline of Facebook's Terms of Service changes through April of 2010. This has largely been part of Facebook's effort to correlate, publish, and monetize their social graph: a massive database of entities and links that covers everything from where you live to the movies you like and the people you trust. They've also changed how your personal information is classified several times, sometimes in a manner that has been confusing for their users. Over the past couple of years, the default privacy settings for a Facebook user's personal information have become more and more permissive. In the beginning, it restricted the visibility of a user's personal information to just their friends and their "network" (college or school). However, Facebook hasn't always managed its users' data well. I have a profile, and so does nearly everyone I know under the age of 60. This is one of a few major steps you should be taking to secure your online identity.Facebook is a great service. I hope that you’ve taken a few minutes to make these changes to your Facebook privacy settings. ![]() You don’t have to be a professional hacker to do basic research online for the purpose of stealing somebody’s identity (which is also one reason why it’s still worth getting identity theft protection).Īnd sadly, most of us don’t care enough to hide much of that identifying information. These may seem like trivial changes, but trust me when I say that taking control of your Facebook privacy settings is critical to the health of your online identity. Facebook Privacy Settings | It’s Serious Business! If you absolutely must check Facebook, you can still do so using your favorite mobile web browser. But you’re giving too much personal information to Facebook and it’s also a time suck on your phone. I know, I know…that’s not an easy thing to do. While we’re at it, can I just give you another unsolicited piece of advice? Go to Settings & Privacy –> Privacy Checkup –> Your Ad Preferences on Facebook. While we can’t control all the information Facebook has on us, we can tell them how much of it they can use to advertise to us. The reason why Facebook is such a valuable company is because of all the information they have on you that they can use for advertisements.įor example, a company can give Facebook money and say “We want our advertisement to only be shown to married people, under the age of 30, who live in Texas and who vote Democrat”. …but for the sake of your privacy, you need to turn it off! 6. Obviously, they’d rather have this information available to track you… You’ll have to click on “Manage Your Off-Facebook Activity”, then “Manage Future Activity”, then click on the “Manage Future Activity” button, then click the tiny little button to turn it off.Įven then, Facebook will show you a warning saying “Are you sure you want to do this?!?” The clear history button is pretty clear, but the future activity settings is a bit harder. In the example above, I’ve already cleared my history (it says “You have no available activity to show at this time”), but chances are you’ll see a lot of information listed here. ![]()
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