Facebook privacy: Control your information

Facebook’s privacy policy divides the world into three types of people. Friends, friends of friends and everyone. Adjusting the privacy and information sharing settings usually involves deciding, of these groups, who should see the data in question. (BBC)

The Electronic Frontier Foundation says the changes are good, but not good enough.

My recommendation for one-stop checking of your privacy controls: ReclaimPrivacy.org. Drag their bookmarklet to your bookmark bar, then visit your privacy settings on Facebook. The scan will check each aspect of your Facebook privacy settings, and will then advise you on, and assist you with, changes to them.

You can trust this website:

Our privacy policy is not long:

we never see your Facebook data
we never share your personal information
Simple. After the scanner is downloaded from reclaimprivacy.org, it operates entirely between your own browser and Facebook.

Of course, you can follow this website’s development on Facebook, and on Twitter.

• Facebook reveals ‘simplified’ privacy changes
• Q&A: Facebook privacy changes
• Lifehacker article about the new controls
• EFF + PBS: an interview