Facebook Privacy: We know what you did last summer

Khürt Williams

Facebook is a nation

400 millions users50% active dailyeach user averages 130 friends70 languages70% outside the US

Source: http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics

Facebook is a business

550,000 active applications250,000 web sites integrated50% of Top 100 global websites integrated11% of users are over the age of 35, and the fastest growing demographic is users over 30.

Source: http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics

 

 

Who's looking through the windowOpenbook: Search Facebook Status Updates, Even if you Don't Have an Account ~ http://youropenbook.org/

Koobface : A computer worm that targets the Microsoft Windows users of the social networking websites ~ http://bit.ly/171ol5

“Lifejacking” - a Facebook-enabled attack that tricks users into clicking links that mark the clicked site as one of your Facebook "likes.“ ~ http://bit.ly/d2gr5y

How did we get here?

http://mattmckeon.com/facebook-privacy/

Facebook profiles are a marketer's dream because users reveal so much about their interests, such as favorite sports, hobbies and product preferences ~ Clara Shih, author of "The Facebook Era."

Turning out the lights

BirthdayVacationPrivacy controlsChildrenPhotosSupervisionSearch enginesFriends

Close the blinds

SaveFace: http://www3.untangle.com/saveface

ReclaimPrivacy: http://www.reclaimprivacy.org/

Get a guard dog

 Defensio eliminates malware and other unwanted or risky content to protect your facebook account ~ http://defensio.com/

Turn off the light and take out the trash “Facebook has gone

rogue, drunk on founder Mark Zuckerberg’s dreams of world domination. It’s time the rest of the web ecosystem recognizes this and works to replace it with something open and distributed” ~ Wired Magazine

http://bit.ly/aaGUSI

Diaspora: The privacy aware, personally controlled, do-it-all, open source social network. ~http://joindiaspora.com/

Questions?

SaveFace: http://www3.untangle.com/saveface

ReclaimPrivacy: http://www.reclaimprivacy.org/

OpenBook: http://youropenbook.org/

Defensio: http://defensio.com/

Diaspora: http://joindiaspora.com/