2. Introduction To
Facebook Security
ID fraudsters
target Facebook and
other social networking
sites to harvest
information about you.
Here's how we
recommend you to set
your Facebook privacy
options to protect
against online identity
theft.
3. How to Adjust your Settings?
This guide walks you
through recommended
privacy settings in
Facebook and shows
you how to set more
secure levels of
privacy and reduce the
chance of becoming a
victim of online identity
theft.
5. Adjust Facebook Privacy
Settings to Help Protect Your
Identity
Unlike some other
social networking
sites, Facebook
provides some
powerful options to
protect you online —
but it's up to you
6. STEP 1 : BE AWARE OF WHAT
INFORMATION FACEBOOK
RECEIVES ABOUT YOU!
7. What Information does Facebook Receive about
You?
Facebook receives a number of different
types of information about you, including your
registration information (for example : name,
email address, date of birth and gender). In
some cases, you may be able to register
using other information, like your telephone
number. Besides, Facebook also receives
information about what information you wish
to share on Facebook (for example : your
posts and your comments).
8. What Information does Facebook Receive about
You?
It also includes the information you choose to
share when you take an action (for example :
when you add a friend, like a page or website,
add a place to your story, use Facebook’s
contact importers or indicate you are in a
relationship). Your name, profile pictures, cover
photos, gender, networks, username and user ID
are treated just like information you choose to
make public. Your birthday allows Facebook to
do things, like show you age-appropriate
contents and advertisements.
9. What Information Others Share About You does
Facebook Receive?
Facebook receives information about you
from your friends and others, such as when
they upload your contact information, post a
photo of you, tag you in a photo or status
update, or at a location, or add you to a
group.
When people use Facebook, they may store
and share information about you and others
that they have, such as when they upload
and manage their invites and contacts.
10. What Other Information Facebook Receives
About You?
Facebook gets data from their affiliates or advertising
partners, customers and other third parties that help them
deliver ads, understand online activity, and generally make
Facebook better. For example, an advertiser may tell the
information about you (like how you responded to an ad on
Facebook or on another site) in order to measure the
effectiveness and improve the quality of the ads.
Facebook also puts together data from the information
they already have about you and your friends. For example,
Facebook may put together data about you to determine which
friends Facebook should show you in your News Feed or
suggest you tag in the photos you post. Facebook may put
together your current city with location information we
have about you to tell you and your friends about people or
events nearby. Facebook may also put together data about you
to serve you ads that might be more relevant to you.
11. What Other Information Facebook Receives
About You?
Facebook receives data from the device you use to
access Facebook, including when multiple users log in
from the same device. This may include your IP
address, your internet service, location, the
type of browser you use, or the pages you
visit.
Facebook also receives data whenever you visit a
game, application, or website that
uses Facebook Platform or visit a site with a
Facebook feature. This may include the date and
time you visit the site; or the web address
you're on; technical information about the
browser and the operating system you
12. What Information About You That is Always
Publicly Available does Facebook Receive?
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The types of information listed below are
always publicly available, and are treated just
like information you decide to make public.
Name
Profile Pictures
Cover Photos
Timeline Photos
Network
Gender
Username
User ID
13. STEP 2 : THINK CAREFULLY ABOUT
WHO YOU ALLOW TO BECOME AS
YOUR FRIEND!
14. Once you have accepted
someone as your friend, they
will be able to access ANY
INFORMATION about you
(including photos) that you have
marked as viewable by
your friends. You can remove
friends at any time if you change
your mind about someone.
15. STEP 3 : USE
“ACQUAINTANCES”, SLIM
DOWN YOUR PROFILE
16. You can choose to make people
'acquaintances' who only have
access to a slimmed-down
version of your profile if you
wish. This can be useful if you
have associates who you do not
wish to give close friend status
to, or feel uncomfortable sharing
personal information with.
17. STEP 4 : DISABLE OPTIONS
AND OPEN THEM ONE BY
ONE
18. Think about how you want to use
Facebook. If it's only to keep in
touch with people and be able to
contact them then maybe it's
better to turn off the bells and
whistles. It makes a lot of sense to
disable an option until you have
decided you do want and need it,
rather than start with everything
accessible.
