Posts tagged with ‘privacy’

Can’t wait until Facebook decides to clone Gmail, but with the default setting being that everyone can read your inbox.
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TAKING CONTROL OF YOUR FACEBOOK PLACES PRIVACY

From DOTRIGHTS.ORG:

If you want to use the privacy controls that are available, here’s how to do so.

Adjusting Check-In Visibility, Turning “Friend Check-Ins” and “Here Now” Off
  1. Go to your privacy settings page and select “customize settings.”
  2. Select the Places settings.
  3. Enable Places? (You may need to enable the product before you can change your settings.)
  4. Adjust your settings:
    1. To adjust who can see your check-ins, use the pulldown next to “who can see my location.”
    2. To disallow friend check-ins, uncheck the “Allow friends to check-in” box.
    3. To disable Here Now, uncheck the “Here Now” box
  5. If you want, disable Places.
Preventing Your Friends’ Apps From Receiving Your Places Info
  1. Go to your privacy settings page and select “edit my settings” under the “Applications and Websites” title.
  2. Select “edit settings” next to “info available through my friends.”
  3. Uncheck the Places check-in box.
Facebook Places. Big Brother has just arrived and s/he looks like your best friend. I can already see the epic fights over checking friends in who want to keep their lives private. That one feature - that loss of control - makes all the difference. It’s like the ultimate tattle-tale. Eesh. I hope the opt out is easy to find. soupsoup: Facebook Places is basically a Foursquare clone, as expected. One really nice feature is your friends have to opt-out of you checking them in, awesome, and so Facebook. That’s right, your friends can check you in, even if you didn’t check in yourself. It’s almost as if Facebook wants you to hate them. People can create a “Place” for your house. At first it’s private, but if enough people check in, it becomes public.  Because of Facebook’s size, it takes all privacy issues location apps have wrestled with for over 10 years (Dodgeball) and cranks them up to 11. Think you hated seeing all those Foursquare check-ins in your stream, well get ready to see 500 million users checking into your stream on Twitter and Facebook. Location based apps are great, if they stay in their silos. Facebook and Twitter streams shouldn’t have check in’s polluting the stream. Currently the only twitter app I know that lets you filter out location check ins is Tweet Deck.

Facebook Places. Big Brother has just arrived and s/he looks like your best friend. I can already see the epic fights over checking friends in who want to keep their lives private. That one feature - that loss of control - makes all the difference. It’s like the ultimate tattle-tale. Eesh. I hope the opt out is easy to find.

soupsoup:

Facebook Places is basically a Foursquare clone, as expected.

One really nice feature is your friends have to opt-out of you checking them in, awesome, and so Facebook. That’s right, your friends can check you in, even if you didn’t check in yourself. It’s almost as if Facebook wants you to hate them.

People can create a “Place” for your house. At first it’s private, but if enough people check in, it becomes public. 

Because of Facebook’s size, it takes all privacy issues location apps have wrestled with for over 10 years (Dodgeball) and cranks them up to 11.

Think you hated seeing all those Foursquare check-ins in your stream, well get ready to see 500 million users checking into your stream on Twitter and Facebook.

Location based apps are great, if they stay in their silos. Facebook and Twitter streams shouldn’t have check in’s polluting the stream. Currently the only twitter app I know that lets you filter out location check ins is Tweet Deck.

Is Your Private Info Way Too Public?

In this 101 crash-course of Epic Fu we show you five simple steps to keeping your online privacy in check. From passwords to location tracking to cookies, we’ll give you the skinny on the simple things you may be overlooking in order to keep your privacy on the web.

Why do we sometimes give up so much of our privacy? Is it a thing of the past? Are you okay with that? What happens when social space moves beyond physical boundaries? Do we end up overcompensating and over sharing? I posted this image a while ago, saying that in the future we’ll have 15 minutes of privacy. What do you think?