Methods and/or means to allow users to better control access to their data used by a web app
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Can't comment on Facebook friend's page
I have a friend on Facebook. I can see his wall and his profile, and comments on items in his profile. But I cannot comment on those items. Our mutual friends can, though. Is there a privacy setting ...
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Block all non-friends on facebook
Is there any way to block all non-friends on facebook?
Well, I know of a profile which can't be viewed by any non-friends at all? Why is it behaving that way? Is it because it is about to deleted by ...
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Controlling what fields of a Facebook profile are public
How can I control exactly what fields of my Facebook profile are private? All I can see under privacy settings are broad controls to let friends or friends or friends see your account details.
What ...
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How can I stop Facebook from knowing when I've seen a post?
There is a new feature I just found out about: Facebook publicizes when I've viewed a post on a group page. I'm not sure whether this is just for group pages or on friends either, but I'd like to be ...
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Request IP logs from Twitter
According to the privacy section at Twitter, it seems that the IPs used for access are logged
Log Data may include information
such as your IP address, browser type, the referring domain, pages
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Concealing IP address when sending via Gmail on another device
Normally when you send an email via Gmail's web interface, your IP address is not revealed in the Received: headers. However, if you configure a device such as the iPhone to send mail via Gmail's SMTP ...
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Can I prevent Google from tracking which links I follow in downloaded PDFs?
I want to create a PDF document using Google Docs/Drive that includes links, but without Google tracking clicks on those links.
Downloading a Google Drive document (File > Download as) in any other ...
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How can I share photos with friends of one certain friend?
I want to share some photos with friends of one friend or just a few friends. One example why I'm asking this: there are some kind of party photos, I want to share them with certain friends and only ...
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How to hide all posts from timeline in Facebook
Is there any way to remove all of my previous post from my Facebook timeline? Or remove all activities from a Facebook app with a single click?
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Privacy settings photos on Facebook
If I have a privacy setting for "friends only" on a picture and a friend shares it, can his friends, who are not my friends, see the picture on his timeline?
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Can I find out if a survey on SurveyMonkey is anonymous?
SurveyMonkey surveys can optionally be made "anonymous", preventing respondents' email and IP addresses from appearing in the survey results.
As a respondent, how can I verify that a survey has been ...
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Is there a way to allow Facebook friends to view, but not to comment on Facebook wall posts by the profile owner?
I've searched Facebook's privacy settings but I can't find a way to disallow friends from commenting on my Wall Posts (that I posted).
Is there a way to allow friends to view, but not to comment on ...
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anonymous links in email?
I've received a spam claimed to be sent from one of my friends' email (well I'm sure he didn't send it).
What exactly would be the implications of clicking the link?
What's the worse that could ...
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How to use Facebook while preserving privacy?
I'm have not signed up yet to Facebook since it's obvious how they think about my private data. But with out using it I might lose the connection to some not so close friends. So I'm trying to collect ...
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Why is it no longer possible to make posts, links or photos in Facebook visible to certain friend lists only?
I used to be able to do this with the old profile. Since Facebook upgraded me to the new profile I cannot select friend lists in the privacy settings or even below single posts anymore although the ...
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Why do some web apps ask for details like Phone Number, home address, etc?
It's thankfully getting rarer, but a lot of web apps seem to want my whole life story before letting me sign up.
What use does (for example) a online image editor have for my phone number? Shouldn't ...
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Why are images in my private album visible without a password?
I am having a hard time understanding how the Private albums feature of Photobucket works.
This what I've done so far:
Created an album called "private".
Set a guest password for the album.
...
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What online services are available for managing your various online IDs and Personas?
I'm kicking the tires on some of the net's identification management websites. Let me clarify this ambiguous term...(and please let me know if there's a better name for sites like these)
A site ...
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Is there any way for me to disable my activity from appearing on the new right column on Facebook?
In the most recent Facebook change, they introduced a side bar on the right of the screen with every action my contacts make. From commenting on other statuses (even in statuses belonging to their ...
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Hide my Twitter followers
For privacy reasons, I don't want everyone to be able to see who follows me on Twitter.
How to do?
I am OK with removing all of my followers if it is the only solution, but I hope there are more ...
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1answer
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Can people on Facebook see photos in albums hidden from them on my mutual friend's timeline?
I have three questions:
If I post something on my timeline that I specifically hide from person X, but in that post I have tagged persons Y and Z, both of whom are friends of mine AND friends of X, ...
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If I create an organization, can I limit what boards the members can see?
I would like to create an organization for our company, with boards for each department.
I need some department boards, such as HR, available only to certain people in the organization. Can I give ...
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Does google record and/or parse the contents of every google voice call?
I've been googling around and am trying to learn more about google voice's privacy policy. Specifically I want to know if Google records and transcribes the content of all of my calls performed over ...
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Amount of information access granted to a page you like on Facebook
When I like a page on facebook. Lets say liking a band on my music intrests and putting it in my information section. How much access have they been granted about me? The links they post appear on my ...
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Disposable proxy for a phone number?
I am in the process of making a deal on Craigslist but I do not really want to release my phone number to someone who I will eventually forget after a while and I am sure the next person would feel ...
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If Facebook says I've logged on from an unknown location, does that mean someone knows my password?
The email I received pointed me to a screen similar to this one:
http://www.securitygeneration.com/security/facebooks-suspicious-login-tracking/
The location was most definitely nowhere near me, so ...
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How can I remove all my searches from the new Activity Log in Facebook?
This is a new feature, inside the activity log. In the past you couldn't view your searches.
As far as I know, the only way to remove a search from the activity log is manually removing each search.
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Disallow Facebook friends who have marked me as “close” from viewing posts they are not allowed to see
Step 1: I update my status with an image on Facebook, and I set the "visibility" to be custom, and exclude a person from seeing it.
Step 2: That person has me marked as a "close friend", and receives ...
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Facebook pictures and posts that are available to non-friends
I viewed my Facebook profile from another account and I have some pictures and posts that are avaliable to non-friends. How can I change this? Under the privacy page everything is set to "friends ...
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1answer
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How to use cloud sync and keep privacy?
So you can block ads that track your every movement on the net. However, this is useless, because if you're signed in to Google Chrome for sync, they can still track your every movement through the ...
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1answer
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Online Privacy from the Facebook ticker while playing games
How can I get Facebook to stop broadcasting when I am online and what I am doing, scrolling on the upper right-hand side of the Facebook page (the ticker)?
Everyone does not need to know if I am ...
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1answer
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Make photo tags visible in my profile without including old photos
In the past I disabled the option of showing photos that I was tagged in on my profile. Now that facebook introduced the option of first approving tags before they are placed on your profile, I would ...
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Is it possible to set privacy options for Facebook fan page profile pictures?
Say if one wanted to allow their fan base to comment on album pictures only and not profile pictures, would this be possible? I know that in the personal profile, privacy options are available. Is ...
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Does this fall within acceptable use of Facebook UID's?
My website (not canvas app) uses facebook as it's membership system. It stores the user's facebook uid (with their permission). This info is never shared with anyone and the privacy policy ...
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Trusting apps from Google Apps Marketplace
From my experience with third-party Facebook apps, I'm wary of adding apps from the Google Apps Marketplace to my Google Apps installation.
Can I trust apps from the from Google Apps Marketplace? ...
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Should one have security/privacy concerns about scorecardresearch.com when using Ning and other sites?
We have a group who is using Ning which seems to allow us to have private discussions online.
However, one user discovered that the website scorecardresearch.com seems to be tracking our actions on ...
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How do I make people I follow on Instagram private
I just wondered if there was a way of making the people that I follow on Instagram private, it's just that some of the people that I follow have their 'following' list set as what appears to be ...
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Unblock/block Google talk users
Is there anyway to block/unblock users on chat via an interface other than Gmail or Gtalk? I can't seem to find any client which does that.
Edited: I need a web app which does this. Not a desktop ...
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Changing privacy settings of a Facebook Group from secret to public
How do I make the privacy of a Facebook Group that is currently set to "secret" as "public"?
I first created this group but could not make it public due to the business nature. I want to make it ...
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Is there a way to register gmail account anonymously?
In days of old, you just entered login+pass+some dummy info, and you're done. Now, it asks for your mobile phone number, or your friend phone, or your home phone number. Is there a way to create ...
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Photo and post privacy on Facebook
I want to make sure the photos I put on Facebook are only shared with family and close friends.
How can I stop a friend letting his friends see and share my photos? I want to keep them my private ...
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How to send a not private message on facebook?
I'm trying to figure out how people are managing to send non-private messages to each other on Facebook. You see them as something like:
Ian Boyd ► Kirsten Guyer: Everyone can see this message.
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How do I share a private YouTube video with someone?
I have uploaded a youtube video and marked it as private.
Now I want to share it with someone. I have tried to share it a few times, but they have not received any email notification.
What is the ...
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How much data do Facebook applications have access to?
When I allow an application to access my data, what information can it actually access?
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How to remove fake daughter profile from facebook without an ID?
Some kid at my daughter's school created a fake profile of her (she is 11) but the "report impostor account" page in facebook requires an ID with a photo, which she doesn't have yet.
I am contacting ...
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Unauthenticated access to Google Docs and Calendar
Today, I tried a demo of Openbravo (web-based ERP) and on its main workspace there were two widgets Google Docs and Google Calendar and they both displayed my Docs and Calendar data from my Google ...
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Privacy setting on Facebook for downloading pictures?
Facebook recently moved me to the new image viewer, which shows a download link below every picture.
With this download link it is possible to download full-resolution original images. I suppose the ...
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(Free?) Secure streaming Video
My company wants to upload some videos of some technology we developed - it will be shown to various patent offices around the world.
Obviously, being pre-patent, we don't want to use just any ...
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What is a good open alternative to Facebook? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Alternative to Facebook
I don't like facebook's cowboy attitude toward privacy. I'd like to see a more open and privacy-respectful social network. Are there any good ...
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Will Facebook have information that I manually remove from the site?
Say that I like the page "A" on Facebook. Then, I dislike it. Does Facebook still do its magic as if I still liked the page? For example, if the page was about bicycles, is there a chance that ...
