Consumer Reports: Half of Social Network Users are "Oversharing," on Facebook, Twitter, Endangering Privacy

Those who "overshare" online - posting personal information like full names, children's names, home addresses and details about when they're away from home - are "especially vulnerable," notes the report.

To counteract these dangers, Consumer Reports made the following seven suggestions of things you should stop doing on Facebook:

1. Using a weak password
2. Listing a full birth date
3. Overlooking privacy controls
4. Posting a child's name in a caption
5. Mentioning being away from home
6. Letting yourself be found by a search engine
7. Permitting youngsters to use Facebook unsupervised

via readwriteweb.com

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Facebook Privacy Changes: 5 Can't-Miss Facts

Keeping track of Facebook's ongoing updates, upgrades and changes—and how they affect your privacy—can be confusing and frustrating. We've sorted through the new wrinkles for you. Here's a list of five essential privacy settings you should review now and tweak accordingly to ensure your information remains safe.

via cio.com

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Location-Based Ads a Goldmine, Says Survey - 50% of Users Take Action - Mobile location-based advertising

Although the privacy issues surrounding Facebook's new, opt-out only data sharing policies are making people uncomfortable, one area where folks are apparently happy to have their private data shared is on their mobile phones. And by private data, we mean exact GPS coordinates. Coordinates that are shared with software developers, ad networks and location-based service providers in return for free location-based mobile applications and geo-targeted ads.

In fact, one in four U.S. adults use mobile location-based services

via readwriteweb.com

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Privacy issues? Google engineers leaving Facebook in droves - Facebook Deactivation

The main issue is that there are concerns that Facebook, by default, now opts you in to allowing third party sites like Yelp to ‘personalise’ your experience, and there are questions about how much information is given away.

The result is that lots of geeks are considering leaving Facebook, and perhaps even more interestingly, veritable droves of Google software engineers are among them.

via eu.techcrunch.com

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