[IGPP Everyone] [EPSS Everyone] Facebook Privacy Settings

[SALYARDS, STEPHEN]

Greetings,
  Just a quick note related to Facebook, privacy settings and the on-going news about the data harvested by Cambridge Analytics.

It is worth noting that the info was not directly gathered through the default Facebook configuration but was related to additional features that had been added on by individual users. Features that appeared to be useful or interesting, but could be exploited as a Trojan Back Door or Malware. So, from one person using the add-on they were able to collect info on a couple orders of magnitude more users.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has a good article on this and how to disable these add-ons, or API's
How To Change Your Facebook Settings To Opt Out of Platform API Sharing
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/03/how-change-your-facebook-settings-opt-out-platform-api-sharing

Hope you find this useful
Take care
Steve Salyards
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