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Stop Facebook from Spying on You

and Other Ways to Protect Your Online Privacy

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Six Ways Facebook Is Invading Your Privacy

A billion people worldwide use Facebook to share details of their lives with their friends. Trouble is, they also might be unintentionally divulging matters they consider privateto friendscoworkers, clients and employersmarketing companiesand even to competitors, scammers and identity thieves.

Six ways Facebook could be compromising your private information and how to protect yourself

1. The new Timeline format exposes your old mistakes. Timeline, introduced in late 2011, makes it easy for people to search back through your old Facebook posts, something that was very difficult to do in the past. That could expose private matters and embarrassing photos that youve long since forgotten posting.

What to do: To hide Timeline posts that you do not wish to be public, hold the cursor over the post, click the pencil icon that appears in the upper-right corner, then click Hide from Timeline or Delete.

2. Facebook apps steal personal details about you even details that you specifically told Facebook you wished to keep private. Third-party apps are software applications available through Facebook but created by other companies. These include games and quizzes popular on Facebook such as FarmVille and Words with Friends , plus applications such as Skype , TripAdvisor and Yelp . Most Facebook apps are freethe companies that offer them make their money by harvesting personal details about users from their Facebook pages, then selling that information to advertisers.

Many apps collect only fairly innocuous informationsuch as age, hometown and genderthat probably is not secret. But others dig deep into Facebook data, even accessing information that you may have designated private, such as religious affiliation, political leanings and sexual orientation.

What to do: Read user agreements and privacy policies carefully to understand what information you are agreeing to share before signing up for any app. The free Internet tool Privacyscore is one way to evaluate the privacy policies of the apps you currently use ( www.Facebook.com/privacyscore ). You also can tighten privacy settings by clicking the lock icon in the upper-right-hand corner. Select See More Settings, then choose Apps from the left menu. Under Apps You Use, click Edit to see your privacy options.

3. Facebook like buttons spy on youeven when you dont click on them. Each time you click a like button on a website, you broadcast your interest in a subject not just to your Facebook friends but also to Facebook and its advertising partners.

But if youre a Facebook user and you visit a web page that has a like button, Facebook will record that you visited that page even if you dont click like. Facebook claims to keep web-browsing habits private, but theres no guarantee that the information wont get out.

What to do: One way to prevent Facebook from knowing where you go online is to set your web browser to block all cookies. Each browser has a different procedure for doing this, and you will have to reenter your user ID and password each time you visit certain websites.

Alternatively, to eliminate cookies created during a specific browser session, you can use the InPrivate Browsing mode (Internet Explorer), Incognito mode (Google Chrome) or Private Browsing mode (Firefox and Safari).

There also are free plug-ins to stop Facebook from tracking you, such as Facebook Blocker ( www.Webgraph.com/resources/facebookblocker ).

4. Social readers tell your Facebook friends too much about your reading habits. Some sites, including The Washington Post and The Huffington Post , offer social reader Facebook tools. If you sign up for one, it will tell your Facebook friends what articles you read on the site.

Problem: The tools dont share articles with your Facebook friends only when you click a like buttonthey share everything you read on the site.

What to do: If youve signed up for a social reader app, delete it. Click the lock icon in the upper-right-hand corner, select See More Settings, then choose Apps on the left. Locate the app, click the X and follow the directions to delete.

5. Photo and video tags can hurt you. They could let others see you in unflattering and unprofessional situations. If you work for a straitlaced employer or with conservative clients or you are in the job market, you already may realize that its unwise to post pictures of yourself in unprofessional and possibly embarrassing situations. But you may fail to consider that pictures that other people post of you also can hurt you.