Tom Scott has produced a graphic demonstration of the way Facebook’s complicated, opt-out privacy settings are exposing information that users might prefer remain private — in this case, phone numbers:
Thanks GB for the tip!
After seeing the last two posts about Facebook and their idea of privacy settings, when I came across the following link I thought I should post it here, too.
The link came through in one of my Twitter feeds (danah boyd I believe). It is a tool that scans your Facebook privacy settings within your browser and informs you in a clear way which elements of Facebook are open to all and which are private.
reclaimprivacy.org
Despite it saying that you must add a bookmark to your browser, you can simply copy and paste the link into the address bar once you are logged into Facebook.
It doesn’t send any data anywhere, running only within your browser.