Friday, May 14, 2010

Facebook: You May Want to Check Your Privacy Settings

As everyone knows, Facebook has problems respecting their user’s privacy. Whereas in 2005 the default policy was that all Facebook users could only see your name, picture, gender and networks, users can now see just about everything except for your birthday and contact info since April 2010.
I am always amazed by people who are, with just a few graphs, able to tell a story with great clarity. Matt Mc Keon from the Visual Communication Lab at IBM Research has visualized this encroachment on your privacy with an animation. All Facebook took screenshots of this animations that work on all browsers:

You may want to check your privacy settings now (click here to do so).

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