Privacy Value Networks » News http://www.pvnets.org The website for the EPSRC-funded Privacy Value Networks project at UCL and the universities of Oxford, Bath and St Andrews Thu, 24 Nov 2011 16:36:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Evil! Or, the problems with Facebook’s privacy settings http://www.pvnets.org/2010/05/evil-or-the-problems-with-facebooks-privacy-settings/ http://www.pvnets.org/2010/05/evil-or-the-problems-with-facebooks-privacy-settings/#comments Wed, 26 May 2010 10:56:50 +0000 Ian Brown http://www.pvnets.org/?p=445 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!

]]> http://www.pvnets.org/2010/05/evil-or-the-problems-with-facebooks-privacy-settings/feed/ 1 Facebook Privacy Settings http://www.pvnets.org/2010/05/facebook-privacy-settings/ http://www.pvnets.org/2010/05/facebook-privacy-settings/#comments Tue, 18 May 2010 10:02:09 +0000 Dave Houghton http://www.pvnets.org/?p=442 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.

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