Posts Tagged ‘Privacy’

How to disable Facebook’s facial recognition feature

Thursday, June 9th, 2011

050125-M-5191K-075Not everyone is crazy about Facebook’s new facial recognition feature. To disable the feature, follow these steps:

  1. Log into Facebook.
  2. In the top-right corner click on Account and go to Privacy Settings.
  3. Click “customize settings” (toward the bottom-middle of your screen).
  4. Look for the section titled “Things others share.” The permission you accidentally gave Facebook to use facial recognition suggestions is located in the “Suggest photos of me to friends” option. Click on “Edit Settings” to change that.
  5. Choose “Disabled” and then push “OK.”

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Facebook – enhanced privacy or invasion of privacy?

Tuesday, December 15th, 2009

big-brotherFacebook recently announced its new privacy enhancements that may just make our information less private. Although there are new controls that allow you to limit who sees your personal information, posts, photos, etc., the change that’s causing blow back is due to a new category, called “publicly available information,” that is beyond users’ control. This new category includes a person’s name, picture and city, the list of their Facebook friends and the Facebook pages they have endorsed. As a recent LA Times editorial observed, “The friends list is particularly sensitive, privacy advocates note, because of the amount of personal information that can be gleaned from knowing a person’s associates.”

Why did Facebook do this? According to the LA Times, it’s simply good business. For them, not necessarily for you. Read the Op-ed piece here.

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