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What you 'like' on Facebook can be revealing

Facebook Like - AP

Clicking those friendly blue "like" buttons strewn across the Web may be doing more than marking you as a fan of Coca-Cola or Lady Gaga. It could out you as gay. It might reveal how you vote.

 

Tool Kit: Protecting Your Privacy on the New Facebook

Facebook

...And now, with Facebook’s newfangled search tool, it can allow strangers, along with “friends” on Facebook, to discover who you are, what you like and where you go. Facebook insists it is up to you to decide how much you want others to see. And that is true, to some extent. But you cannot entirely opt out of Facebook searches. Facebook, however, does let you fine-tune who can see your “likes” and pictures, and, to a lesser extent, how much of yourself to expose to marketers.

 

Opaque Instagram ad policy change riles users

Instagram

Instagram, the popular photo-sharing service that Facebook bought this year, is the target of a storm of outrage on Twitter and other sites after a change in its user agreement hinted that it might use shared photos in ads.

 

Facebook Simplifies Privacy Settings

Facebook took steps to simplify its privacy settings, in its latest bid to give consumers more control and clarity over what personal information is shared.

 

Facebook users voting nope to privacy changes

Facebook

Facebook users have until 3 p.m. ET/noon PT on Dec. 10 to cast their votes on changes proposed to the social network's data use policy and statement of rights and responsibilities — among them, the very right of Facebook users to vote on policy.

 

FTC finalizes privacy settlement with Facebook

The Federal Trade Commission voted Friday to finalize its settlement with Facebook, resolving charges that the social network exposed details about users' lives without getting the required legal consent.

 

Facebook reuses your 'likes' to promote new stuff

Facebook now uses your name to post the things you "liked" maybe long ago, in a way that can get you in hot water in the here and now.

 

Facebook settles Sponsored Stories suit for $10 million

Facebook will pay $10 million in a settlement over its “Sponsored Stories” feature, which had some users up in arms about their privacy.

 

Facebook privacy vote was dud with a thud

Proving that Facebook should never become a real country, a recent user vote on privacy changes resulted in ... hardly anyone voting. "Hardly anyone" meant 342,632 votes — a smidgen of a smidgen of the social network's 900 million-plus users worldwide.

 

Richard Blumenthal, Connecticut Senator, Says Facebook Passwords Should Not Be Sought By Employers

Richard Blumenthal

A Democratic senator from Connecticut is writing a bill that would stop the practice of employers asking job applicants for their Facebook or other social media passwords, he told The Associated Press on Thursday. U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal said that such a practice is an "unreasonable invasion of privacy for people seeking work."

 

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