ReclaimPrivacy: How to Reclaim Your Facebook Privacy!

 

There’s been a great deal of press recently regarding Facebook’s privacy (or lack of it!)

• EFF – The Erosion of Facebook Privacy 
• EFF – Facebook Privacy Changes 
• Yahoo – 7 Things to Stop Doing Now on Facebook
• Wired – Facebook’s Gone Rogue

ReclaimPrivacy – provides an independent and open tool for scanning your Facebook privacy settings.  (Thanks Kurt!)

Four Steps to Reclaim Your Facebook Privacy:

1. Open Internet Explorer, Safari, or Chrome (FireFox currently has some issues)
2. <Right-Click> –> ReclaimPrivacy selecting "Add to Favorites"
3. Login & view your Facebook Privacy Settings
4. While logged into Facebook, click (& run) the bookmark from Step #2

ReclaimPrivacy Results = You will see a series of privacy scans that inspect your privacy settings and warn you about settings that might be unexpectedly public.

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