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Facebook profile privacy: Take control, student style

By | November 6, 2009, 1:25pm PST

Summary: Gone through all of your privacy settings and now feel safer as a result? Read this and think again, because there are more things to take into consideration.

(10/12/2009) This post is now out of date. Facebook rolled out new privacy settings on the 9th December 2009. Stay tuned for an updated post; this will be linked to shortly.

A question arose in one of my seminars yesterday, asking whether universities spy on students through Facebook.

Yes, they do in many cases. But then the discussion evolved into another topic and this got me thinking. I get emails all the time asking about Facebook privacy settings and those who are worried about certain things being discovered, and the employment problems for future reference.

With the multitude of settings, and more often than not rather confusing and somewhat contradictory, how do you effectively lock down your photos, notes, profile and information, to not only certain people but everyone else outside your close-knit networks?

There are articles already on how to lock down your Facebook through the in-built settings, and this one is particularly good. However there are tricks and subtleties I’ll mention here which you may not have considered before.

Feel free to leave verbal heckles, but in the meantime - are you sitting comfortably? Shall we move on?

Network hacking to avoid staff/student snoopage –>

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Zack Whittaker, a criminologist who studied at the University of Kent, Canterbury, is a journalist, writer and broadcaster.

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Zack Whittaker

I worked briefly with Microsoft UK in 2006 but no longer have any connection with the company. Regardless, I remain impartial and unbiased in my views.

I don't hold any stock or shares, investments or industrial secrets in any company, but have signed confidentiality agreements with a number of UK and U.S. organisations, whose names I am not at liberty to disclose.

I was involved with Kent Union, the University of Kent's student union, undertaking voluntary, non-salaried, elected positions between early 2009 and mid-2010.

No other company, body, government department, non-governmental organisation or third sector organisation employs me or pays me a salary in any capacity whatsoever.

As a freelance journalist, whenever expenses are given and taken by a company that is not CBS Interactive, these will be disclosed in each relevant post to ensure transparency.

I currently work with a UK law enforcement unit, but this is an entirely separate position which bears no connection to other work.

(Updated: 23rd October 2011)

Biography

Zack Whittaker

Zack Whittaker, criminologist who studied at the University of Kent, UK, is a journalist, writer and broadcaster.

After studying criminology at university, though still in his early-20's, he has already had a series unconventional work and voluntary positions. He has worked with researchers studying neurological illnesses like Tourette's syndrome (which he suffers from), has given lectures on the nature of disabilities in the public community, and occasionally ends up speaking on television and radio discussing the events of the day.

He first had academic work published at the age of 22, then still an undergraduate, and has been cited by a wide range of publications: from the Huffington Post, Business Insider, AllThingsDigital, The Atlantic Wire and CBS News.

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good idea about facebook
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Great Newsie
docquesting@... 6th Nov 2009
Now this is more of what the world wants you keep
posting help articles like this ya hea? Was aware
of some settings but not all of these.
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Had someone said earlier...
zwhittaker 7th Nov 2009
...then maybe I would have done wink Ask, and you (may) receive.
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now the key point is
lordjeremias 8th Nov 2009
what the hell is Facebook for? what is really the point? after you started
you account and "re-connectec" with all of those acquaintances long lost
and now discovered there were somewhere selling insurances or working
at some remote location you never even heard off, after that key info for
your life,
what the hell is facebook useful for? (besides spying on your ex, i mean.)
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Let's think about what happened at Ryerson & York University...
BlueBerry Pick'n Updated - 9th Nov 2009
Expulsion for Facebook cheating? : Macleans OnCampus
http://oncampus.macleans.ca/education/2008/03/0
6/expulsion-for-facebook-cheating

of course, some people might just call it *dealing openly* with the
functions of study group methodology

gee, which doesn't even cover the selling of your personal data, your
friends. or even the government 'monitoring' of your personal life...

yeah, Facebook be Stazi Sexy, baby...
for PROFIT... who needs privacy?
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Internet and Privacy...
arminw Updated - 9th Nov 2009
Are mutually contradictory. Anything, no matter what and
where, that is put on the Internet can be obtained by anyone
that really wants it. If there's anything you don't want the
whole world to know, don't put it anywhere on the Internet,
including places like Facebook. The government does not
even need the okay of a judge, in order to get your
information. A good lawyer can always come up with a
sufficient reason to convince a judge to order your
information be delivered.
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good idea about facebook
gavin.chan 2nd Oct
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