{"id":872,"date":"2013-01-22T17:00:50","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T17:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/algerienetwork.com\/magazine\/?p=872"},"modified":"2013-01-22T17:00:50","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T17:00:50","slug":"how-to-protect-your-privacy-from-facebooks-graph-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/algerienetwork.com\/sciences-tec\/how-to-protect-your-privacy-from-facebooks-graph-search\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Protect Your Privacy from Facebook’s Graph Search"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Earlier this week, Facebook launched a new feature\u2014Graph Search\u2014that raised some privacy concerns<\/a> with us. Graph Search allows users to make structured searches to filter through friends, friends of friends, and strangers. This feature relies on your profile information being made widely or publicly available, yet there are some Likes, photos, or other pieces of information that you might not want out there.<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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Since Facebook removed the ability to remove yourself from search results altogether, we’ve put together a quick how-to guide to help you take control over what is featured on your Facebook profile and on Graph Search results. (Facebook also has a new\u00a0video<\/a> explaining how to control what shows up in Graph Search.)<\/p>\n

What’s public on my profile?\"\"<\/h3>\n

Click on the lock in the top menu bar, and under \u00ab\u00a0Who can see my stuff?\u00a0\u00bb click \u00ab\u00a0View As.\u00a0\u00bb This will take you to the public view of your profile. Here you can see exactly what information, photos, and posts are available to the public. If there’s anything you don’t want the whole Facebook universe to be able to see, you can change individual settings to hide particular items.<\/p>\n

How do I hide my general information?<\/h3>\n

Go to your profile page and click \u00ab\u00a0Update Info.\u00a0\u00bb You can control who is able to see what personal information you’ve listed\u2014and if they’re able to see it, they’re able to search it.<\/p>\n

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Who can see my posts, both past and future?<\/h3>\n

You can access your privacy settings<\/a> by clicking on the lock in the top menu bar, then clicking \u00ab\u00a0See More Settings.\u00a0\u00bb From here, you can choose your audience for future posts (including photos), and you can also limit who has access to previous posts that were more widely accessible.<\/p>\n

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How do I hide my photo albums?<\/h3>\n

Go to your profile page and click on \u00ab\u00a0Photos,\u00a0\u00bb then \u00ab\u00a0Albums.\u00a0\u00bb You can configure who has access to each album.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/center>Note that tagging others in a photo by default gives their friends the ability to see that photo. Also note that removing a photo from your Timeline does not remove it from being searched, especially if it is someone else’s photo.<\/p>\n

In order to make sure that photo is not searchable, you must detag yourself or report the photo. Facebook has another\u00a0great video<\/a> about how to do just this. To detag yourself, click on a photo, and on the bottom of the picture click on \u00ab\u00a0Options.\u00a0\u00bb Next, click \u00ab\u00a0Report\/Remove Tag.\u00a0\u00bb This gives you the option to remove your tag, as well as to notify the poster that you’d like the photo to be taken down.<\/p>\n

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How do I hide my \u00ab\u00a0Likes\u00a0\u00bb?\"\"<\/h3>\n

Go to your profile page and click on \u00ab\u00a0Likes.\u00a0\u00bb Click \u00ab\u00a0Edit\u00a0\u00bb on the top right. From there, you can edit who can see your liked pages in each individual category.<\/p>\n

Do I actually \u00ab\u00a0Like\u00a0\u00bb these things?<\/h3>\n

While you are configuring your \u00ab\u00a0Likes,\u00a0\u00bb we encourage you to take a moment to reassess the pages you have listed. A few years later, you may not like \u00ab\u00a0Free Booze Fridays\u00a0\u00bb anymore. Unliking is as simple as going to a particular page, hovering your mouse over \u00ab\u00a0Liked,\u00a0\u00bb and clicking \u00ab\u00a0Unlike.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n

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Keep it up!<\/h3>\n

The most important think you can do is to check your privacy settings often\u2014especially after new features are released. Facebook has done a better job<\/a> of making new privacy settings more accessible while also notifying users of any changes. Their explanations, however, can lose sight of bigger picture concerns. Keep checking back on EFF’s blog for more updates and how-tos.<\/p>\n

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Earlier this week, Facebook launched a new feature\u2014Graph Search\u2014that raised some privacy concerns with us. Graph Search allows users to make structured searches to filter through friends, friends of friends, and strangers. This feature relies on your profile information being made widely or publicly available, yet there are some Likes, photos, or other pieces of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-872","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-programmation"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/algerienetwork.com\/sciences-tec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/algerienetwork.com\/sciences-tec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/algerienetwork.com\/sciences-tec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/algerienetwork.com\/sciences-tec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/algerienetwork.com\/sciences-tec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/algerienetwork.com\/sciences-tec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/algerienetwork.com\/sciences-tec\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/algerienetwork.com\/sciences-tec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/algerienetwork.com\/sciences-tec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/algerienetwork.com\/sciences-tec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}