The Source For Online Privacy
After the Randi Zuckerberg Facebook Photo Sharing incident, it appears that most Facebook Users have not properly set their Facebook Timeline and Tagging Privacy Setting. Here are those settings:
Recommended Privacy Settings
Ensure you change the settings below from Friends or Friends of Friends to the settings below “Only Me”.
For your information, the default Facebook Timeline Privacy Settings are below.
Default Settings
SchoolFeed owned by Classmates.com acts like a Virus
If you get the above screen, do not click Cancel. If you do, it will still act like a virus and post the original SchoolFeed post on your Wall to your Facebook Profile Page.
SchoolFeed, was purchased in 2012 by the owner of Classmates.com. You do not need this application, if you want to see your friends on Classmates.com, go directly to that site. There is no advantage to using SchoolFeed, it is predatory and begins posting your photo on your Friends, their Friends walls. That is horrible unless you want your photo as the poster person for SchoolFeed.
We tried a number of different methods, but the recommended solution is to use the Block apps Facebook feature. After that, you should delete any posting on your Wall or Profile Page. Here are the steps:
1. Go to your Facebook Privacy Settings Page – Use the Down Arrow in the upper right top of your Facebook Profile Page and click Privacy Settings.
2. Under Privacy Settings, click Mange Blocking under Blocked People and Apps.
3. Under Block apps, add schoolFeed to your list of Block apps.
In May 2012, Facebook launched a new Trending Videos widget that is automatically posted to your Facebook News Feed. What is intrusive about this feed is that the top videos are from Socialcam or Viddy, and to watch these trending videos you once again must install these Social Media Apps. In addition, the Facebook Privacy settings do not provide a privacy setting to enable or disable Facebook Trending Videos. Here are recommended steps to block Socialcam and Viddy from posting on your Wall.
If you haven’t noticed these videos on your Facebook News Feed, here is an example:
New Facebook Trending Videos Widget
1. From your Facebook Timeline, select Privacy Settings
2. Under Blocked People and Apps, select Manage Blocking
3. Under Block apps, enter Socialcam
After blocking these Apps, you should not see Socialcam or Viddy videos on your Facebook News Feed. There may be other videos on the Trending Video Widget, if those videos require you to install an App to view them, you can also block those Apps. It would be nice to see Facebook add a privacy setting to block Video Apps that require App installation.
LinkedIn is investigating the theft of 6.5 Million of its user passwords that have been publishing on a Russian computer hacking forum. The passwords are circulating in the form of a cryptographic “hash” which converts will let Hackers decipher your LinkedIn password. LinkedIn has 150 million users so it is possible your LinkedIn password was not compromised.That said it is recommended:
Here is the current information on their Twitter account:
Resources:
Updating Your Password on LinkedIn and Other Account Security Best Practices
Click Here – Voting Information
Statement of Rights and Responsibilities
Data Use Policy
To cast an “educated” vote, you would need to read the above four documents. You will vote to either keep the old documents or for the new ones.
Editors Note: Is there someone that you want to block from seeing your Facebook Profile? Someone you don’t want knowing your business? A Former Girl Friend/Boy Friend, Former Spouse, a Family Member, a Stalker, a person from High School or College, a Co-worker or someone who is driving you nuts and is simply being disrespectful in a Facebook Group. Here are instructions for Blocking that Person from Viewing Your Facebook Timeline or Home Page. This will also Block them from seeing your posts in a Facebook Group and you can’t see theirs!
1. From the Facebook Menu, Click the Down Arrow at the top right of your Facebook Home or Timeline page, select Privacy Settings.
2. Go to the bottom of the page, Blocked People and Apps, click Manage Blocking.
3. Enter the name or email address of the person you want to block and click Block.
1. Go to the person’s profile (Facebook timeline page)
2. Select Report/Block This Person from the dropdown box.
3. Under Report and/or Block This Person, select the checkbox, Block Person’s Name, click Confirm.
Sources
Facebook: How to block someone?
Step-by-Step Instructions for Removing Facebook Social Ads
Here are instructions for removing yourself from appearing in Facebook Social Ads on your Facebook Friend’s Walls like the one below. In most cases, these ads are served after you use the Facebook “Like” feature.
1. Click the Down Arrow next to the Home button and select Account Settings.
2. In the left Navigation, select Facebook Ads
3. Under Ads Shown by third parties, select Edit third party ad settings.
4. Under Ads shown by third parties, change the selection from “Only my friends” to “No one”. Click Save Changes.
5. Under Ads and friends, select Edit social ad setting
6. Under Ads and Friends, change the default selection from “Only my friends” to “No one”. Click Save Changes.
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Your iPhone Contacts are Stored in Twitter’s Servers
The Los Angeles Times is reporting that Twitter has acknowledged that after mobile users tap the “Find friends” feature on its smartphone app, the company downloads users’ entire address book, including email addresses and phone numbers, and keeps the data on its servers for 18 months.
Removal Instructions – Twitter Find Friends Address Book
1. Log-in to your Twitter Account.
2. Go to:
Twitter Find Friends Page – click here
3. Click on the Remove link.
4. Click Yes to delete your iPhone or Mobile Address Book that Twitter is storing on their servers for 18 months.
After clicking on Remove, you will receive a confirmation message that your contacts have been removed. Unfortunately, you won’t be able to see which contacts they had.
References
Los Angeles Times – Twitter stores full iPhone contact list for 18 months, after scan
Facebook’s Enhanced Data Archive Now Lists Cell Phone Numbers Stored
With Facebook’s May 2012 Enhanced Data Archive Release, there is finally publicly available evidence to consumers that Facebook is copying cell phone numbers and email addresses from your perceived private and confidential iPhone Contacts and storing them. We downloaded our Enhanced Data Archive and noticed a new category “Address Book”. In our Address Book, we found a random and chilling list of business contacts and friends. The individuals that made our list were those that were not our Facebook Friends. It appears that after installing the Facebook App on our iPhone, Facebook is copying our Contact list and storing a random list of personal and business cell phone numbers and email addresses entered into our Apple iPhone Contacts for their “People You May Know”, “Find Friends” or ”Suggested Friends” feature.
Like other Apple iPhone Users with the Facebook Application installed, we don’t remember giving Facebook permission to access and “store” potentially confidential phone numbers and email addresses in our cell phone. In February 2012, Dustin Curtis wrote in his blog, “It’s not really a secret, per se, but there’s a quiet understanding among many iOS app developers that it is acceptable to send a user’s entire address book, without their permission, to remote servers and then store it for future reference.” Curtis reports that iOS Developers admit to having Contact Databases with millions of records, some that include Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Larry Ellison.
We downloaded our Enhanced Data Archive and found the following screen. There was a list of contacts in our address book with a Contact Names. These names were an exact copy of cell phone numbers and email addresses from our iPhone. It was not our complete iPhone address book. The Contact Names and Numbers have been redacted, but you get the point.
The Online Privacy Issues
Finally, it’s apparent that Facebook’s position would be that they are just trying to make make their “People You May Know” feature more relevant. But “downloading” and “storing” the personal cell phone number of say the President of the United States from his doctor or personal friend that happens to have the Facebook App installed on his phone in our opinion is morally and ethically wrong. It’s not only time for Apple to fix this mobile security bug but for Facebook and other companies to re-think their core privacy business practices.
References
www.dcurtis.is – Dustin Curtis
TheNextWeb.com
Huffington Post
If someone duplicated your content without your permission, you are entitled to request that they delete the page, remove the search terms and remove the entry from the Search Engines. We had this occur to some of our content recently where the stolen content was replicated word-for-word including the image links to our site. The website owner subsequently removed the content but the search engines were recognizing the duplicate content as well as the duplicated content checkers. Here is the process we used.
Copyscape
a) We used the Copyscape Free Service and entered the website address of our page at www.copyscape.com – Check for Duplicate Content
In our case, Copyscape returned a website that had copied our exact content and even included direct image links to our website.
Other info
b). Find the Website Contact Information
d) Write and Send a Cease and Desist Letter
Sample Cease and Desist Letter
To Whom It May Concern,
I am writing to you to avail myself of my rights under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). This letter is a Notice of Infringement as authorized in § 512(c) of the U.S. Copyright Law. I wish to report an instance of what I feel in good faith is an instance or Copyright Infringement. The infringing material appears on the Service for which you are the designated agent.
You are registered with the U.S. Copyright Office as the Designated Service Provider Agent to receive notifications of alleged Copyright infringement with respect to users of the Service for which you are the Designated Agent.
1. The material which I contend belongs to me, and appears illegally on the Service is the following:
<<TITLES OF WORK>>
2. The material appears at the website addresses:
<<ADDRESS OF INFRINGING WORK>>
3. The material appears on my Web site at these addresses:
<<ADDRESS OF ORIGINAL WORK>>
4. The infringing material is available through the following search results and links
<<SEARCH TERMS AND LINKS TO SERPS>>
5. My contact information is as follows:
<<NAME, ADDRESS, PHONE NUMBER AND EMAIL>>
6. I have a good faith belief that the use of the material that appears on the service is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or by operation of law.
7. The information in this notice is accurate, and I am either the copyright owner or I am authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner.
I declare under the perjury laws of the United States of America that this notification is true and correct.
Signed: <<YOUR NAME>>
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How to Report Copyright Infringement – Websites
e) We reported the copyright infringement to:
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