Understanding the Facebook community and your privacy settings - #8 - Understanding Facebook applications and your privacy
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Understanding the Facebook community and your privacy settings
#8
/ July 28, 2010 / 1:08 min.
Understanding Facebook applications and your privacy
If you'veinstalled applications
when you'reusing Facebook
then you may be unaware that you've beensharing information with those applications
. That includes all of yourprofile information
that you might have thought was private. We'll tell you more in this tutorial.
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Quicktime show notes
- Every time you install an application on Facebook, whether it's Scrabble or Farmville or whatever, you agree to share your information with that application.
- That means that even though you think your profile is private, you've just agreed to share all of your profile information, photos, videos and everything else with the application.
- That means that whoever developed the application now has access to your private info.
- We would recommend reading application descriptions and reviews from now on before deciding to install them and share your privacy.
- That means that even though you think your profile is private, you've just agreed to share all of your profile information, photos, videos and everything else with the application.
- That means that whoever developed the application now has access to your private info.
- We would recommend reading application descriptions and reviews from now on before deciding to install them and share your privacy.
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