In an effort to make it easy for the users to control what kind of data to be shared in order for the applications to work, Facebook has made an important change by launching the simplified data-sharing permission. Beginning from July this year, users will get a single dialog box explaining all of the data [...]...

In an effort to help Facebook users finding out whether or not there is a need for us to review our privacy settings, an app called “Privacy Check” has been developed by rabidgremlin.com. To use it is very simple, just log on with your Facebook credentials, you’ll get your privacy score. Apparently, there are three [...]...

WhatApp, a Stanford-initiated site that reviewed the privacy, security and openness of the popular Web services or mobile apps has rated Facebook’s privacy significantly lower than that of other platforms such as Twitter and iPhone. As shown in the below picture, Facebook only received 2 points out of 5 in three categories of privacy, securit...

According to Facebook’s official blog, Facebook has rolled out a wider variety of access levels to the users as they publish any new story to their Walls. Different types of privacy settings has thus be available for the users when they want to post new story or content via the third-party Facebook apps. For instance, [...]...