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Privacy and Picture Tagging

Wednesday, January 22, 2014Cerritos Senior Center

Victor Castelo, Senior Specialist

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What is Facebook?• A portal for social

networking• Interact with friends• Share photos and/or

videos• Community organizing• Email and instant

messaging• Various forms of

interpersonal communication• Publicly traded company

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Benefits of Facebook

• Keep in touch with friends and family• Share photos and videos• Connect with classmates• Stay informed on community events• Select your own level of privacy • Ability to deny friend requests

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The Consequences of Facebook• Information and pictures may be used against a

person • Sexual predators• Cyber bullying• Students under 18 providing too much information

(full name, address, birthday, school, etc.)• Photos can indicate your location• Updating status with revealing information like going

on vacations• Data mining and information leaks

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• “WE DO NOT GUARANTEE THAT FACEBOOK WILL BE SAFE OR SECURE. FACEBOOK IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ACTIONS OR CONTENT OF THIRD PARTIES, AND YOU RELEASE US, OUR DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AND AGENTS FROM ANY CLAIMS AND DAMAGES, KNOWN AND UNKNOWN, ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH ANY CLAIM YOU HAVE AGAINST ANY SUCH THIRD PARTIES.”

• What does this mean? Let’s translate…

Facebook’s Statement of Rights and Responsibility

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June 21, 2013Reuters - Facebook admits year-long data breach exposed 6 million users

• Inadvertently exposed 6 million users' phone numbers and email addresses to unauthorized viewers over the past year

August 19, 2013Times Live - Facebook security breach revealed via message on Zuckerberg's wall

• A Palestinian IT expert exposed a Facebook security flaw by posting an alert on site creator Mark Zuckerberg's wall.

December 4, 2013CNN - 2 million Facebook, Gmail and Twitter passwords stolen in massive hack

• 318,000 Facebook accounts

 

Facebook in the News

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Privacy Settings on FacebookPrivacy• Profile Control who can see your profile and personal information.• Search Control who can search for you, and how you can be

contacted.• News Feed and Wall Control what Recent Activity is visible on your

profile and in your friends' home pages.• Applications Control what information is available to applications

you use on Facebook.

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Privacy• Who can see my stuff?

– Who can see your future posts? Public / Friends / Only me– Review all your posts and things you’re tagged in. Use Activity Log– Limit the audience for posts you’ve shared with friends of friends or Public? Limit

Old Posts

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Privacy • Who can contact me?

– Who can send you friend requests? Everyone / Friends of Friends– Whose messages do I want filtered into my Inbox? Basic / Strict

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Privacy • Who can look me up?

– Who can look you up using the email address or phone number you provide? Everyone / Friends of Friends / Friends

– Do you want other search engines to link to your timeline? On / Off

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Click on Symbol• Who can see my

stuff?• Who can contact me?• How do I stop

someone from bothering me?

Privacy Shortcuts

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Timeline and Tagging Settings• Who can add things to my timeline?

– Who can post on your timeline? Friends / Only me– Review posts friends tag you in before they appear on your timeline?

On / Off

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Timeline and Tagging Settings• Who can see things on my timeline?

– Review what other people see on your timeline– Who can see posts you’ve been tagged in on your timeline? Everyone / Friends of

Friends / Friends / Only me– Who can see what others post on your timeline? Everyone / Friends of Friends / Friends /

Only me

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Timeline and Tagging Settings• How can I manage tags people add and tagging suggestions

– Review tags people add to your own posts before the tags appear on Facebook? On / Off– When you’re tagged in a post, who do you want to add to the audience if they aren’t

already in it? Friends / Only me– Who sees tag suggestions when photos that look like you are uploaded? Friends /

Only Me

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How to Tag Pictures• Hover cursor over a person’s face

– Facebook will suggest a person or you can start typing in a name• Click “yes” or “no” • Choose persons after typing in name

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How to Tag Pictures• If there is no box over a person’s face

– Left click the mouse over the person and start typing their name in the search box that appears

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Blocking People on FacebookBlock People• Makes profile hidden from the blocked person• Invisible on a Facebook search • Interaction blocked through Facebook channels (such as Wall

posts, Poke, etc.). • All Facebook connections broken (for example, friendship

connections, Relationship Status, etc.)

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Blocking • Who can look me up?

– Restricted list– Block users– Block app invites

– Block event invites– Block apps

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Things You Should KnowMore Interesting Tidbits• Graph Search

– Allows searches of people, photos, places, and interests within the Facebook search engine.– Which includes status updates, photo captions, comments, and check-ins– Everyone is searchable, no matter what your settings are.– Can be limited by your user privacy settings (limit or eliminate ‘public’ settings)

• Shadow Profiles– Profile that contains data pulled from friends and family members– Info could be phone numbers, email addresses, and more.

• Thieves use Facebook– In 2010, a Nashville, TN couple took a vacation to Florida, posting photographs, check-ins, and status updates constantly. They returned to find their home burglarized, thousands of dollars in property stolen, and a few pizza boxes

and a box of clothing that the burglar left behind.– Nashville police believe that the burglar was tipped off about the house

being empty through the couple’s Facebook postings.