Facebook Privacy Doesn’t Really Exist
January 14th, 2010 admin
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Facebook recently rolled out new privacy settings that provides additional publishing controls. For example, Facebook users can now publish a photo to a selected list of friends. Clicking the “lock” icon opens the Custom Privacy settings. Once a photo is selected and the privacy options are set, the next step is to Share . As you can see, the default setting is set for Only Friends and this particular post is set for Only Me . So only Matti Meikäläinen can see this image, right? Well… almost, but no, not quite. There is one large loophole to all this. Do you see the link, highlighted in red? That’s right! The photo can be shared with anyone by sending them this public link . …
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