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Image security with Facebook adverts in your network

Facebook doesn't really have the best privacy policies in place when it comes to using your information, photos and other bits and bobs you put up on your profile. Adverts as you can see in the image above, take information from your profile and fit them automatically into an advert to try and entice you. If you are single, it will display single ads (and sometimes even if you're married, it'll use your photo in your friends' adverts), and take geographic data about you and transform them into even more advertisements. After you log in, head over to the Facebook Ads page and ensure that "No one" can see adverts which use your information, and "No one" can see the actions you perform on adverts, such as like, dislike or becoming a fan of something.

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posted by Zack Whittaker
November 6, 2009 @ 1:25 pm

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