Check your Facebook ‘privacy’ settings now

December 11th, 2009 admin

If you use Facebook and care about your privacy, take a moment to read this blog entry. Facebook has made some major changes that may allow a great deal more people to see your personal photos and videos, date of birth, family relationships, and other sensitive information. While logged in to Facebook, click the “Settings” link and you should see a box that looks like the one pictured below. You may see that Facebook has reset your privacy settings, so that the everyone can now see the information on your “About Me” …


Originally posted on SecurityFix

 
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