Privacy alert: your updates on Facebook are now public by default
Facebook announced this week that that it has begun making status messages, photos and videos visible to the public at large by default instead of being visible only to a user’s approved friends. An article in the Technology section of the NYT examines the implications.
It will be interesting to see whether Facebook uses your public updates for good (free message search API for developers) or evil (selling your updates to marketers). As my coworker observes, “I don’t think it will matter. Someone will hack into it and steal all our identities first.”
PC World has a recent article with some tips on how to make your Facebook profile more private. What privacy tips do you have?
(Mine: get work to block Facebook so you don’t have to worry about it.)