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Following Facebook鈥檚 announcement today about its new location-based product, Places, here鈥檚 what the 老澳门开奖结果 of Northern California has to say on the privacy front:

Facebook made some changes to its regular privacy practices to protect sensitive location-based information, such as limiting the default visibility of check-ins on your feed to 鈥淔riends Only.鈥� But it has failed to build in some other important privacy safeguards.

In the world of Facebook Places, 鈥渘o鈥� is unfortunately not an option.

Places allows your friends to tag you when they check in somewhere, and Facebook makes it very easy to say 鈥測es鈥� to allowing your friends to check in for you. But when it comes to opting out of that feature, you are only given a 鈥渘ot now鈥� option (aka ask me again later). 鈥淣o鈥� isn鈥檛 one of the easy options.

And if you use Places yourself, you aren鈥檛 even given a 鈥渘ot now;鈥� you鈥檙e just told that friends are able to check-in for you and left to discover for yourself that you can change this setting by digging into your privacy controls. ( for instructions about how to manage your privacy settings)

Facebook is rolling out 鈥渉ere now,鈥� privacy later.

The 鈥淗ere Now" feature of Places provides a list of people who have recently checked-in at a given Place. But while Facebook makes it easy to let people know your current location, you have limited ability to control who knows where you are.

鈥� Problem 1: You don鈥檛 have full control over who can see you in the 鈥淗ere Now鈥� list. You can only choose to turn the feature on or off. If it鈥檚 on, any Places user who checks in at the same place can see you in the Here Now list.

鈥� Problem 2: 鈥淗ere Now鈥� is turned on by default if you have previously selected that 鈥淓veryone鈥� can see even a single piece of your information.

Places data is on the move.

Facebook immediately opened up location data to applications and Connect sites. This means that your friends鈥� apps may be able to access information about your most recent check-in by default as soon as you start using Places. Even if you鈥檝e already gone through your settings to limit the info that apps can access, you should do it again- you may find that you鈥檝e been defaulted into sharing your location info with apps.

For more information about Facebook Places and detailed instructions for how to manage your privacy settings and safeguard your location information, visit our