It seems that every time Facebook makes a change to their privacy settings, they make controlling your data more confusing and harder to keep it out of the hands of people that can harm you.
Recently Facebook unveiled a new Privacy Settings center. It looks completely different and it has 50 privacy settings with over 170 options! Yikes.
See a visual representation of these settings.
If you haven’t checked your privacy settings lately, we urge you to do so soon. Every once in a while Facebook updates the defaults for who can see your information, and if you don’t keep on top of it, a lot more people than just your friends and family can see not only your pictures, but maybe even your address and phone number.
Back in March Facebook announced that they will start automatically sharing your data with third party websites to make your experience “better.” However, most people aren’t aware that their information might be shared on sites like Yelp.com and Pandora.com.
Facebook says, “Pre-Approved Third-Party Websites and Applications. In order to provide you with useful social experiences off of Facebook, we occasionally need to provide General Information about you to pre-approved third party websites and applications that use Platform at the time you visit them (if you are still logged in to Facebook). Similarly, when one of your friends visits a pre-approved website or application, it will receive General Information about you so you and your friend can be connected on that website as well (if you also have an account with that website). In these cases we require these websites and applications to go through an approval process, and to enter into separate agreements designed to protect your privacy.”
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