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Today’s Privacyfix: Clear your Facebook searches
You may have read about Facebook “Graph Search,” part of Facebook’s efforts to make all of Facebook’s content easier for you to search. It’s getting easier and easier to find a friend, a restaurant, or your favorite sporting team’s Facebook page through … Continue reading
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Today’s Privacyfix: Get your friends’ apps under control
Applications are a key part of the Facebook experience for many people. Whether you’ve installed a Facebook game, or an app that pushes status updates to another social media account, you’ve allowed that application to access your Facebook account, including … Continue reading
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The Sad State of Social Media Privacy (infographic)
Social media is becoming a larger part of our culture everyday. Unfortunately, privacy concerns are growing at the same rate. And although developers are quickly updating ways to make social media more enjoyable, are they developing ways to keep the … Continue reading
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Today’s Privacyfix: Keep your Facebook profile out of Google
Most of our internet activity begins with a search from a search engine like Google (or soon, with Facebook graph search). If you’re active on Facebook, then your Facebook profile may be the first thing that shows up when someone searches … Continue reading
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Today’s Privacyfix: Review your Facebook Ad Board
If you’ve used Privacyfix, you probably have a sense of how much data Facebook and Google collect about your profile and how you use the Web (and for most people, that’s a lot). But even with all of that data, … Continue reading
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Today’s Privacyfix: Review the Facebook pages that you’ve liked
Reviewing pages that you’ve liked is one of the easiest ways to control how you appear in Facebook’s new Graph Search feature. Maybe just for fun you liked something a few years ago, never imagining that someone would be able to … Continue reading
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Today’s Privacyfix: See yourself as advertisers see you
You may have heard about the debate raging in Washington D.C. over “Do Not Track,” the idea that you should be able to flick a switch in your browser to prevent marketing companies (over 1,200 of them) from collecting data … Continue reading
Today’s Privacyfix: Ditch some of your Facebook friends
They say you can’t have too many friends. How true is this maxim in terms of Facebook privacy? Sure, it seemed like a good idea to add your high school sweetheart on Facebook, but after you never talked to them, sorting … Continue reading
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The college graduate’s guide to Facebook privacy
(Today’s guest post is by Ryan Wakely, a senior at UC Santa Cruz and PrivacyChoice Intern.) There comes a time in every undergraduate’s life when they have to face the un-faceable: Graduation. You worked hard during your four or more … Continue reading
Get ready for Facebook Graph Search with Privacyfix 3.0
Today we launched Privacyfix 3.0, a major upgrade focused on getting you ready for Facebook Graph Search. All the details are in the press release (below). This post is about the highlights. The first thing you need to know is: … Continue reading
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