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Hiding inane postings from those you otherwise care about (like family members) is a start. Likewise, we can limit how much information we get from other people. For a bigger list of the most-effective (if not perfect) privacy and security measures you can take, see my recent article “ These 11 Facebook privacy tweaks put you back in control.” For starters, give the network as little information as possible (not your phone number or street address, for instance).

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Honeywell advises people on how to “lock down” social media profiles so it’s harder for sketchy characters to skim personal information or break into accounts.Īnd there are plenty of things we can do at least to curtail both hackers and Facebook’s own snooping. Facebook isn’t the only person you have to worry about when you’re on Facebook. “I definitely don’t agree it’s a waste of time,” says Leigh Honeywell, a security engineer and cofounder of Tall Poppy, a consultancy that helps people protect themselves from online harassment. (However, that hasn’t prevented Rotenberg from having his own Facebook account, where he mostly posts about EPIC and privacy issues.)

Rotenberg’s stance is understandable: EPIC maintains a depressingly extensive running list of Facebook privacy glitches, deceptions, and acts of arrogance. Anything short of that, like dutifully tweaking your privacy settings, is “a waste of time,” he argues. “You want legal rights that allow you to get access to all of the information Facebook gathers about you,” he says. Longtime critic and watchdog Marc Rotenberg of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (which has sued the FTC over its Facebook oversight) says that the only solution is legislation that compels the service to be transparent about its data-gathering activities.