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Facebook provides tools to limit what personal information is visible to others on your profile and timeline. The privacy settings toolbar allows configuring privacy levels for posts, profile information, followers, ads, apps and security. It is best to limit visible information to friends only, avoid posting photos with faces, and regularly review privacy and login settings and connected apps. The document also provides instructions for downloading your data, deactivating or deleting your Facebook account.

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DoD FacebookPrivacy

Facebook provides tools to limit what personal information is visible to others on your profile and timeline. The privacy settings toolbar allows configuring privacy levels for posts, profile information, followers, ads, apps and security. It is best to limit visible information to friends only, avoid posting photos with faces, and regularly review privacy and login settings and connected apps. The document also provides instructions for downloading your data, deactivating or deleting your Facebook account.

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Facebook Smart Card Last Updated: 03/10/2015

Social Network - Do’s and Don’ts


• Only establish and maintain connections with people you know and trust. Review your connections often.
• Assume that ANYONE can see any information about your activities, personal life, or professional life that you post and share.
• Ensure that your family takes similar precautions with their accounts; their privacy and sharing settings can expose your personal data.
• Avoid posting or tagging images of you or your family that clearly show your face. Select pictures taken at a distance, at an angle, or otherwise
concealed. Never post Smartphone photos and don’t use your face as a profile photo, instead, use cartoons or avatars.
• Use secure browser settings when possible and monitor your browsing history to ensure that you recognize all access points.

Minimizing Your Facebook Profile Settings Toolbar


The (1) Privacy, (2) Timeline and Tagging, (3) Followers,
(4) Security, (5) Ads, and (6) Apps tabs all contain
settings for concealing personal information. Use the
settings displayed below to maximize your online
security.

Remember, Facebook interactions such as likes and wall


posts have been effectively used to profile individuals
based on their behaviors. Try to minimize the amount of
personal information that you post on social networking
Facebook provides shortcuts to their privacy settings that help to limit what services and limit your interactions.
others can see in your profile. Select Privacy Checkup to change your basic
privacy settings. For more extensive settings, click See More Settings. From
there, navigate through the pages of the settings toolbar to control how your
personal information is shared with others.
Use the Privacy tab to declare which audiences can search for you, The Security tab provides ways to protect your credentials and become
1 contact you, and see your posts. In general, it is best to limit the
4 aware of suspicious login attempts. Use Login Alerts and Where You’re
audiences to ‘Friends’ or “Only Me’. The Use Activity Log selection can Logged In to monitor login activities and end inactive sessions.
be used to review past posts individually and edit the audiences for each
entry. The Limit Past Posts selection can be used to retroactively change the
settings of all ‘Public’ posts to a ‘Friends’ only audience.

Timeline and Tagging controls how others interact with your timeline. Use the Ads tab to prevent Facebook from using your data for
2 Select View As to see what your profile looks like to specific audiences.
5 advertising. Set Third Party Sites and Ads & Friends fields to ‘No One’.

Your Facebook contacts may be sharing your information with third party
6 apps without your knowledge. Navigate Apps > Apps Others Use and
uncheck all data fields to prevent others from sharing your data.
Avoid linking
third-party apps
Followers can view your posts from their personal News Feeds. It is even
3 possible for followers to view the content you post without being an
(e.g. Twitter) with your Facebook
account. Data shared with other
accepted Facebook friend. Set Who Can Follow Me to ‘Friends’ only.
apps becomes subject to their
terms and conditions which
may result in unwanted data
aggregation and dissemination.
Facebook Smart Card Last Updated: 03/10/2015

Facebook Profile Page


The Facebook profile page contains tabs that allow users to add information about themselves, view friend lists, and post text entries or photos to their pro-
files. Within these tabs reside general audience settings. Use the guidelines below to maximize your security while interacting with these features.

About Friends
Avoid entering personal data within the About section. This information Under the Friends tab:
is mostly optional and contains data fields including Work and Education, • Navigate Manage > Edit Privacy to change who can view your contacts.
Places You’ve Lived, Contact and Basic Info, Family and Relationships, and Limit your Friend List to Only Me.
Details About You. Use the audience settings to change the mandatory fields • Navigate Manage > Manage Sections to control which data fields will
to ‘Friends’ or ‘Only Me’. appear on your timeline. Avoid sharing places on your timeline and use
discretion when posting information regarding your personal interests.

View Activity Log Reviewing Your Information


The View Activity Log tool displays the information that is posted to your To review a more extensive list of the data collected by Facebook, navigate
timeline in a chronological order. Use the dropdown menu shown to delete Settings > Download a Copy of your Facebook Data > And More. Select Start
or manage how individual posts appear on your timeline. My Archive to receive a personalized report of the data collected on you.

Deactivating/Deleting Your Facebook Account


Deactivating an account removes your name and photos from things that you have shared. To
deactivate your Facebook account, navigate to Settings > Security > Deactivate Your Account.
Your account remains deactivated until the next time you login.

To delete your Facebook account, select Help from the triangle icon’s dropdown menu and select
Visit the Help Center. Navigate Manage Your Account > Deactivating, Deleting & Memorializing
Accounts > How do I Permanently Delete My Account > Let Us Know. Verify that you wish to
delete your account by clicking Delete My Account. Facebook will permanently remove most of
your data within 90 days of submission.

Useful Links - For more information or questions regarding this card email [email protected]
A Parent’s Guide to Internet Safety www.fbi.gov/stats-services/publications/parent-guide
Privacy Rights Clearinghouse www.privacyrights.org/fs/fs18-cyb.htm
Microsoft Safety and Security www.microsoft.com/security/online-privacy/social-network
Online Guardian www.onguardonline.gov/topics/social-networking-sites.aspx

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