A Sense of Doubt blog post #1750 - How to Lock Down Facebook
Just a share........ so far behind because of GRADING ROBOT.
https://boingboing.net/2017/11/14/delete-facebook.html
FROM CORY DOCTOROW:
If you're still using Facebook (I don't), your data is being used to profile you in seriously creepy ways; the best thing you can do is delete your Facebook account, but second-best is locking down your account, using the deliberately confusing, overly complexified privacy dashboard.
A rule of thumb for any kind of gamble is that complexity only exists to confuse you about the odds. All those lines on the craps table are there so you can't figure out which bets are better propositions and which ones are worse. The same goes for Facebook settings.
https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-lock-down-facebook-privacy-settings/
11.14.2017 09:10 AM
How to Lock Down Your
Facebook Privacy Settings
Friends,
friends of friends, advertisers; keeping track of Facebook's privacy settings
can get confusing. Here's how to get yours just right.
Facebook
deserves a lot of the flack it gets, be it for providing Russian propaganda with a
platform or gradually eroding privacy norms. Still,
it has some genuine usefulness. And while the single best way to keep your
privacy safe on Facebook is to delete your account, taking these simple steps
in the settings is the next best thing.
Remember, it's not just friends of friends you need to
think about hiding from; it's an army of advertisers looking to target you not
just on Facebook itself, but around the web, using Facebook's ad platform. In
the video above and the post below, we'll show you how to deal with both.
Fine-Tuning Friends
Limiting who can see which of your posts is an easy first
step. On a desktop, go to the little dropdown arrow in the upper-right corner,
and click Settings. From there, click on Privacy on
the left-hand side. This is where the magic happens.
Under Who can see my stuff, click on Who
can see your future posts to manage your defaults. You can make public
to anyone at all, limited to your friends, or exclude specific friends. You can
quarantine your posts by geography, or by current or previous employers or
schools, or by groups. Just remember that the next time you change it, the new
group becomes the default. So double check every time you post.
This section has other important privacy tools you can
fiddle with, including who can look you up with your email address or phone
number. We'd recommend not listing either in the first place, but if you do,
keep the circle as small as possible. (If you do have to share one or the other
with Facebook for account purposes, you can hide them by going to your profile
page, clicking Contact and Basic Info, then Edit when
you mouse over the email field. From there, click on the downward arrow with
two silhouettes to customize who can see it, including no one but you.)
But pay special attention to the option to (deep
breath) Limit the audience for posts you’ve shared with friends of
friends or public? If you ever had a public account, taking it private
wasn't retroactive. If you want to hide those previously viewable posts, lock
this setting down.
Over on Timeline and Tagging you can
control over what shows up on your own Facebook timeline. Basically, you can’t
stop your friends from tagging you (sorry!), but you can stop those
embarrassing photos from popping up on your page. At the very least, you should
go to Review posts you’re tagged in before the post appears on your
timeline, and enable that so that you can screen any tags before they land
on your page.
To test out your changes, go to Review what other
people see on your timeline. You can even see how specific people view your
page, like your boss or your ex or complete strangers. It also never hurts to
take stock of you present yourself to the world. (Looking at you, people who
haven't updated your cover photo since the Obama administration.)
That should about cover your friends. Now onto
advertisers, which are like friends, except they never leave you alone, even if
you ask nicely.
Ad It Up
In that same Settings panel, head down
to Ads. As you probably realized, Facebook knows what you do pretty much everywhere
online. So does Google, so do dozens of ad networks you’ve never heard of.
You're being tracked pretty much all the time, by everyone, thanks to this here
internet.
You can still limit how Facebook uses that information,
though. Tired of that lawnmower you looked at following you to Facebook? Turn
off Ads based on my use of websites and apps. Saying no to Ads
on apps and websites off the Facebook companies does the same, except
for all the sites Facebook serves ads to around the web. Which is most of them.
Lastly, for some fun insight into how advertisers think of
you, click on Your Interests. There you’ll find all the categories Facebook
uses to tailor ads for you. You can remove any you don’t like, and marvel at
the ones that don’t make any sense. This won't make the ads go away, but it'll
at least you can banish all those off-brand kitchen gadgets from your News
Feed.
And you’re good! Or at least, as good as can be expected.
It’s still Facebook, after all.
Facebook Privacy
Brian Barrett is the digital director at WIRED, covering security, consumer technology, and anything else that seems interesting. Prior to WIRED he was the editor in chief of the tech and culture site Gizmodo and was a business reporter for the Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan’s largest daily newspaper.
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