Configure your confidentiality settings on social networks
On April 18,2022 by Tom Routley
The use of social networks requires a certain level of control over your privacy settings in order to protect your digital identity. Secure access to your account, configure the visibility of your publications: Here are several tips to get started!
Privacy on social networks: what are the risks for the user?
Most social profiles are created using a real identity (name). The user is exposed to various risks to verious risks without the approriate security settings, filters and options available on social networks:
Hacking of your account (impersonation)
Visibility of private information (e.g photos)
Sharing sensitive information with strangers
Protect access to your account with strong authentication.
This security option requires a two stages of identification procedure (e.g password + code sent by SMS) to access your account.
This option is available:
On Twitter
On Facebook
On Google Plus
On Facebook, the privacy settings are accessible from the "lock" button on the top right of the screen.
Verify public visibility of his profile: remove information (pictures, interests) that should not appear. If necessary, de-index his Facebook profile from Google.
Sort your friends by creating lists (friends, family) to seperate the type of information being shared.
Classify your sensitive contacts in the "restricted" list. The members of this list does not have access to shared publications (unless they are public).
Managing your history: Hide previous publications or limit their visibility, remove identifications/tags (references by other users, identification of photos).
Pay attention to the content published on public spaces: Facebook pages, groups, etc..
Photo credit: Facebookom
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