May 18, 2011 | Neal | No comment
Privacy By Default: California Social Networking Bill Makes Sense – Yahoo! News
The key takeaway here is that California is considering a bill that will force all social networking sites (or anyone who might want to make your profile public) to set all privacy settings to “private” as a default. As the article says, this makes all the sense in the world. If your goal is to share your information widely then you’ll make the choice to change the default settings. If you want something more restrictive, you’ll have to spend the time learning about the settings to configure it to your exact needs. If you want to “lurk” with a very private profile while learning more about your privacy options and how you feel about them, then you are safe because that will essentially be the default setting. The current mode where the default is that your profile is “open” until you make changes (at least in most cases I’ve seen like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn) puts your information at risk as you learn about the ins and outs of what are becoming more and more complex privacy controls.
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