Friday, August 20, 2010

Facebook is once again removing your privacy

Facebook recently unleashed a new feature called "Places". Without warning, everyone on Facebook is automatically "in" as soon as you check it out. And, unfortunately, it allows your location to be displayed to the entire Facebook world at large.

Here's a blog post on how to fix it.

I am about thisclose to just removing my profile on Facebook permanently. MY privacy and my location are my business to reveal, not theirs.

if you haven't checked your privacy settings in a while, you may also want to make sure that your "location" is set to either Friends only or disabled so that Facebook doesn't share your info anyway.

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