On the impossible dream that is Infomation Security in a University.
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I’m shocked, shocked I tell you, by how hard Facebook make it to find all the options. Ok, no I’m not. It’s just par for the course, but I was surprised to find that I’d missed the option that lets friend’s applications read your location. Graham Cluley has an excellent step-by-step guide to getting it right.
Ars Technica sums it up well Privacy groups on Facebook updates: meh
The defaults are still very open and called “recommended” settings. It’s still opt-out not opt-in for pretty much everything. Meh.
Facebook has just offered me a great set of options:
1) Link publicly to a like page for my location, make my employer public etc. or,
2) Have location, employer etc. deleted completely from my profile.
How do they manage to keep getting this so wrong?
We’ll be seeing a lot more of this.
(via Sans ISC)
These posts keep getting written for me :)
15 year old girl posts some pictures of herself on her Bebo profile (and presumably leaves the on public year). They get copied all over the net and end up in Loaded magazine next to words to the effect of “Phwoar look at that, can anyone get her to pose for us”.
The girl, now an adult, sued Loaded for breach of privacy but lost because the images were already widely spread. Which seems, in itself, a reasonable decision. Now if she’d sued for breach of copyright, she’d have been on much firmer ground (though IANAL) but if she’d understood privacy to start with, and her social networking site set sensible defaults, the whole thing would have been avoided.
(again, via The Register)
By chance, after my post earlier this morning, this popped up in my RSS feed:
Facebook has called a general meeting on privacy amid widespread user discontent over a succession of privacy-eroding changes by the social network.
The “all hands meeting” of Facebook staffers is due to take place at 4pm PDT on Thursday. It follows a critically panned attempt by Elliot Schrage, Facebook’s vice president for public policy, to justify its privacy stance in an online Q&A with readers of the New York Times earlier this week
(Via El Reg)
