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Weekly output: Facebook’s Supreme Court, Twitter data breach, Russian disinformation campaigns, Facebook data partners (x2) Looking at my last possible day of Christmas shopping reminds me of one evening in pre-Amazon days when I wrapped up the season's gift procurement on my walk home along Connecticut Avenue--by ducking into the shops I found interesting.

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Facebook & your kids - Are they safe ? Here's some tips

Thanks to the article from Consumers Report for the stats. It's something that parents should have some kind of game plan when it come to having the kids on Social Media. If you have some comments, we would love to hear from you.

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Facebook & your kid’s security from Consumers Report

Over the past couple of months, I have had some parents recently ask me recently about “How safe is Facebook?” Great question, which I figured should get a great answer.  I recently read the latest survey from Consumers Report May issue about the current state of personal security on Facebook towards minors, which was part of Facebook’s changes to their terms of services in June/ 2010. Here’s some numbers which is shared in the survey, which might come as a shocking surprise to some of you:

20 million minors are actively used Facebook in the past year

 7.5 million of them were younger than 13

Facebook’s terms of service require users to be at least 13 years old

Among the group of minors using Facebook, more than 5 million were under age10

Most accounts were largely unsupervised by their parents, exposing them to malware or serious threats such as predators or bullies

Using Facebook can present children and their friends and family with safety, security and privacy risks. In the past year, the use of Facebook has exposed more than five million online U.S. households to some type of abuse including virus infections, identity theft, and—for a million children—bullying, according to the survey.

“Despite Facebook’s age requirements, many kids are using the site who shouldn’t be,” says Jeff Fox, Technology Editor for Consumer Reports. “What’s even more troubling was the finding from our survey that indicated that a majority of parents of kids from the age of 10 and under seemed largely unconcerned by their children’s use of the site.”

Social media is another way for consumers to expose themselves and make themselves vulnerable to becoming a victim of identity theft or having to replace their computer. Earlier this year, Consumer Reports:

surveyed 2,089 online households across the US 

one-third had experienced a malicious software infection in the previous year

estimates that malware cost consumers $2.3 billion US last year

forced people to replace 1.3 million PCS in US.

This does not mean you should stop using social media, it means that consumers need to do more on their part to protect their information. So here are some tips on being socially safe for you & your family:

 Monitor a child’s account.

Parents should join their children’s circle of friends on Facebook. If that’s not feasible with an older teenager, keep tabs on them through their friends or siblings, as did 18 percent of parents surveyed who had 13- to 17-year olds on Facebook. Parents should delete a pre-teen’s account or ask Facebook to do so by using its “reports an underage child” form.

Utilize privacy controls.

Roughly one in five active adult Facebook users said they hadn’t utilized Facebook’s privacy controls, making them more vulnerable to threats. Facebook’s privacy controls may not prevent every breach but they help. Users should set everything they can to be accessible only to those on their friends list. Enabling a public search allows users’ profile picture, friends list, activities and more to be visible online outside of Facebook.

Turn off Instant Personalization.

Facebook has been adding sites to its Instant Personalization feature, which automatically links accounts to user-review sites such as TripAdvisor (travel) and Yelp (local businesses). Users who don’t wish to share what cities they have visited with their Facebook friends via TripAdvisor should disable Instant Personalization, which is turned on by default.

Use apps with caution.

Even though Facebook says in its privacy policy that it doesn’t share identifiable information with advertisers without permission, connecting with an app or website allows access to general information. Users should check the list of apps they are using and define the settings for each one listed. Decide what information the app can access, when possible, or perhaps eliminate the app altogether. Also, users should limit access to their information that is available to apps that friends use.

Use common sense.

Teach & remind your children that Social Media can be a great tool to connect with other friends and family but not to put information or images that you don’t want people to see up for the world to see.

Additional findings from Consumer Reports latest State of the Net are featured in the June issue of Consumer Reports magazine available on newsstands on May 10th or online at www.ConsumerReports.org.

If you have tips that have worked to protecting you & your family please let us know by adding your comments to this article on here or our Facebook page.

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How to prevent Facebook to share your data with non-Facebook sites

Here’s a quick information about a tricky Privacy Settings of Facebook that goes into effect. “Instant Personalization” feature shares your data with non-Facebook sites and it’s set on “Enabled” by default, so if you don’t know about it you’ll be sharing your data with non Facebook ( most likely partnered site of Facebook ) .And the list includes so far the following names : Bing - Social Search Pandora - Personalized Music TripAdvisor - Social Travel Yelp - Friends' Local Reviews Rotten Tomatoes - Friends' Movie Reviews Clicker - Personalized TV Recommendations Scribd - Social Reading Docs - Document Collaboration This is easy to turn off. Just go to Account > Privacy Settings > Apps & Websites > Instant Personalization > edit settings and un-check “Enable”. Once that’s done, you should be good to go. And be sure to let your friends know about this, as if they don’t turn it off they’ll be sharing info about you as well.

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If your Facebook friends don't do this, they will be sharing info about you.

The  new FACEBOOK privacy setting called "instant personalization" goes into  effect. It shares your data with non FB sites and is automatically set  to 'enabled'. To change this: Go to Account -> Privacy Settings ->  Apps and Websites -> Instant Personalization -> Edit Settings,  and uncheck "Enable".  If your Facebook friends don't do this, they will be  sharing info about you. Please copy and repost

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Facebook's Instant Personalization is a new potential threat to your online privacy.

Facebook has updated it's Privacy settings for "Instant Personalization," which allows you to disable your content from being shared with third party affiliates. By default, the setting shares your data with non-Facebook websites & it is automatically set to "Enable". Go to Account>Privacy Settings>Apps & Websites>Instant Personalization>Edit Settings and uncheck "Enable".

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FACEBOOK CREEPIN'

As of today, the New FB Privacy setting called "Instant Personalization" goes into effect. The new setting shares your data with non-Facebook websites & it is automatically set to "Enabled". Go to Account > Privacy Settings > Apps & Websites > Instant Personalization >edit settings & uncheck "Enable". BTW If your friends don't do this, they will be sharing info about you as well. Please copy and repost...

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Disable facebook "Instant Personalization"

We just disabled the "Instant Personalization" that Facebook automatically enabled today which when enabled allows anyone to explore everything about our friends without your permission. We did this to protect all of you now please do the same for your friends. Here's the instructions to disable: Account / Privacy settings / Apps & Websites (located at the bottom left) / Edit your settings / Instant Personalization - Edit Setting (skip the video) / go to the bottom and click the box that says Instant Personalization ... wait for the progress bar to complete as it will ask you to confirm when it is complete / click confirm.

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