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[EFF.org Updates] if you don't want to share a particular piece of content with everyone, Facebook will argue, then just set the privacy level for that piece of content to something else. But we think the much safer option is to do the reverse: set your general privacy default to a more restrictive level, like "Only Friends," and then set the per-post privacy to "Everyone" for those particular things that you're sure you want to share with the world.

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[Decoding the Web] Facebook - New Privacy Settings - The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly ...: Facebook has recently announced that it reached 350 million users. Most users are sharing their real personal information, like birthday, home address, email address, family etc., with their friends only, or simply with everyone.

[Tytls.com] Tytls.com - Facebook's New Privacy Changes: The Good, The Bad, and ...: Facebook's New Privacy Changes: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (Bankston/Electronic Frontier Foundation). Tags: Internet.

[The Command Line] EFF Analysis of Facebook's New Privacy Settings - The Command Line: The EFF has done the heavy lifting so you don't have to, that is sifting through the recently landed changes to Facebook's privacy controls. They've lumped their findings into the good, the bad, and the ugly.

[WebmasterWorld] Facebook Gives Users New Tools to Control Their Information: Yep, EFF has a December 9 post, "Facebook's New Privacy Changes: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly" in which they go into great detail with gripes about defaulting to Everyone.

[...My heart's in Accra] ”¦My heart's in Accra » Bye, bye Beacon”¦ and other bad ad ideas: which proved to be sorta chintzy and ugly, and which I promptly returned. I’ve run into a dozen Overstock ads on different sites, each of which urges me to repurchase the ugly necklace I rejected, or similarly dreadful blue topaz jewelry.

[PogoWasRight.org] Facebook's New Privacy Changes: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly ...: The new changes are intended to simplify Facebook’s notoriously complex privacy settings and, in the words of today’s privacy announcement to all Facebook users, “give you more control of your information.” But do all of the changes really give Facebook users more control over their information?

[RSS For Gadgets] RSS For Gadgets » Facebook privacy change angers campaigners: Privacy groups including the American Civil .The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a group that campaigns for the rights of internet users, said that while some of the changes were beneficial to the site's worldwide audience, others were “plain ugly”.

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[BBC Blog Network] BBC - dot.life: Can Google now see, hear and search in real time?: After all this is possible for any site using a robots.txt file and it should be allowed under right to privacy rules. There is some debate about using these sites if you have a right to privacy...but I do have a right to not allow google to index me.

[LIMED - World News, Video, Blog] Changes to Facebook privacy controls | LIMED - World News, Video, Blog: Facebook has outraged civil liberties campaigners after introducing new privacy settings that could dramatically increase the amount of personal information people expose online. Privacy groups including the American Civil Liberties Union railed against the changes to the world’s largest social network yesterday, calling the developments “flawed”

[KEYTLaw] Facebook's New Privacy Changes: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly ...: Electronic Frontier Foundation: Five months after it first announced coming privacy changes this past summer, Facebook is finally rolling out a new set of.

[NewSunNetworks] NewSunNetworks ”” Blog ”” Facebook's New Privacy Changes: The Good ...: Bankston / Electronic Frontier Foundation : Facebook’s New Privacy Changes: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

[Techknology's Blog] Facebook Rolls Out New Privacy Settings System: Using the guise of shielding more of your personal information, and giving you more control over the information you enter into Facebook, it turns out that Facebook is actually making it harder, if not impossible, to shield your personal information, and is making more of that information available to others–whether you like it or not.

[Publicola] Publicola » Blog Archive » The Lack of Minorities in Washington State: Eric Pettigrew was previously employed by Safeco Insurance.  It would be interesting to get Pettigrew’s comments on insurance company use of credit scoring in setting rates.  I am pretty sure that Safeco began using credit scoring to set rates during the time that Pettigrew both worked at Safeco and was an elected official.

[LIMED - World News, Video, Blog] Changes to Facebook privacy controls | LIMED - World News, Video, Blog: Facebook has outraged civil liberties campaigners after introducing new privacy settings that could dramatically increase the amount of personal information people expose online. Privacy groups including the American Civil Liberties Union railed against the changes to the world’s largest social network yesterday, calling the developments “flawed”

[Work4Real | Blogs search] Facebook's New Privacy Changes: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly ...: Five months after it first announced coming privacy changes this past summer, Facebook is finally rolling out a new set of revamped privacy settings for its 350 million users. The social networking site has rightly been criticized for ”¦ .

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