![]() The term General Information includes your and your friends’ names, profile pictures, gender, user IDs, connections, and any content shared using the Everyone privacy setting. When you connect with an application or website it will have access to General Information about you. You can, however, limit the ability of others to find this information through search using your search privacy settings.Ĭurrent Facebook Privacy Policy, as of April 2010: The default privacy setting for certain types of information you post on Facebook is set to “everyone.” You can review and change the default settings in your privacy settings.įacebook Privacy Policy circa December 2009:Ĭertain categories of information such as your name, profile photo, list of friends and pages you are a fan of, gender, geographic region, and networks you belong to are considered publicly available to everyone, including Facebook-enhanced applications, and therefore do not have privacy settings. Information set to “everyone” is publicly available information, may be accessed by everyone on the Internet (including people not logged into Facebook), is subject to indexing by third party search engines, may be associated with you outside of Facebook (such as when you visit other sites on the internet), and may be imported and exported by us and others without privacy limitations. You should also consider your settings whenever you share information. You should review the default privacy settings and change them if necessary to reflect your preferences. You decide how much information you feel comfortable sharing on Facebook and you control how it is distributed through your privacy settings. Your name, school name, and profile picture thumbnail will be available in search results across the Facebook network unless you alter your privacy settings.įacebook Privacy Policy circa November 2009:įacebook is designed to make it easy for you to share your information with anyone you want. Profile information you submit to Facebook will be available to users of Facebook who belong to at least one of the networks you allow to access the information through your privacy settings (e.g., school, geography, friends of friends). Our default privacy settings limit the information displayed in your profile to your school, your specified local area, and other reasonable community limitations that we tell you about. We understand you may not want everyone in the world to have the information you share on Facebook that is why we give you control of your information. No personal information that you submit to Thefacebook will be available to any user of the Web Site who does not belong to at least one of the groups specified by you in your privacy settings. Watch closely as your privacy disappears, one small change at a time! To help illustrate Facebook's shift away from privacy, we have highlighted some excerpts from Facebook's privacy policies over the years. Today, it has become a platform where you have no choice but to make certain information public, and this public information may be shared by Facebook with its partner websites and used to target ads. Soon, it transformed into a platform where much of your information is public by default. When it started, it was a private space for communication with a group of your choice. Since its incorporation just over five years ago, Facebook has undergone a remarkable transformation. ![]()
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