Social media networks like Facebook are all about sharing your personal data – and in order to achieve that, the privacy settings are changed on a nearly-monthly basis. At least I am under the impression that every new or changed setting adds yet another option to share more than you actually want.
I was wondering why my linkedin profile was suggesting my gmail contacts as possible members – with their mail addresses. I never gave permission to actually grab that data from gmail, so why the heck are they are now retrieving data from external applications?!?
Well, the answer is simple – new privacy control settings, hidden within the currently 4 categories “Profile”, “Communications”, “Groups, Companies & Applications” and “Account”. Watch out for these 3 marked in the screenshots.
And the account advertising
Hooray for the next privacy control “enhancements” – just wait for it.