What the Tech? Check Your Facebook Settings to Maintain Security
If you haven’t taken a look at what information you’re sharing, you may want to take Facebook’s privacy checkup.
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What the Tech? Has Your Facebook Account Been Hacked or Cloned?
Facebook accounts aren’t just hacked, they’re cloned. Someone creates a new profile using your name and photo, then sends friend requests to people you know.
What the Tech? What Does Facebook Do with Your Phone Number?
The huge Facebook data leak that compromised user information for over a half-billion Facebook accounts brings up the question (again) of what Facebook knows and stores about its users. It’s been so long ago, many of us have forgotten that we gave Facebook our cellphone number when we signed up. To refresh my own memory, I set up a new…
What the Tech? Facebook Wants You to Review Your Privacy Settings
Facebook will begin notifying 2.4 billion of its users that they need to review their privacy settings. You’re almost assured to receive the notification over the next couple of weeks. What does it mean? The social media network just released to all of its users a way to see and clear the history of which websites and apps are sharing…
What the Tech? Deleting Facebook Friend Requests from People You Don’t Know
Remember the good old days of Facebook shortly after you joined? You’d be all excited to hear from that friend from 6th grade or a friend request from someone you’d lost touch with years ago? Today most of the friend requests we get are from people we don’t know. Many of them are fake accounts, set up by spammers and…
