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Introduction of Facebook ‘graph search’ facility
(The following warning was received from, NW 15th August 2013)
Facebook are shortly to release across the United Kingdom, a new type of search engine for their social media site called ‘graph search’. Details of this are contained within Facebook’s own site, and indicate that this new tool will search on information that was previously only visible by going to your profile page, and uses any of this information about you that you have shared publicly, including locations, employment, relationship statuses, addresses, phone numbers etc. plus any pages that you've liked. All can now be searched via Graph Search simply by inserting a search topic such as ‘people who live in Rayleigh.
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There exists the possibility that criminals and others may seek to use the internet and social media to identify personal information you with a view to embarrassing, discrediting harassing, corrupting or blackmailing you or your family for their own benefit, and the use of ‘graph search’ may provide an opportunity to obtain such information if unsecured.
It would appear that ‘graph search’ makes it much easier to find information about you, and as such you should consider raising your privacy settings so that “Only Friends” can see your photos. If your privacy is set to “Friends of Friends” or “Public”, people unknown to you will still be able to see your data.
(The following warning was received from, NW 15th August 2013)
Facebook are shortly to release across the United Kingdom, a new type of search engine for their social media site called ‘graph search’. Details of this are contained within Facebook’s own site, and indicate that this new tool will search on information that was previously only visible by going to your profile page, and uses any of this information about you that you have shared publicly, including locations, employment, relationship statuses, addresses, phone numbers etc. plus any pages that you've liked. All can now be searched via Graph Search simply by inserting a search topic such as ‘people who live in Rayleigh.
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There exists the possibility that criminals and others may seek to use the internet and social media to identify personal information you with a view to embarrassing, discrediting harassing, corrupting or blackmailing you or your family for their own benefit, and the use of ‘graph search’ may provide an opportunity to obtain such information if unsecured.
It would appear that ‘graph search’ makes it much easier to find information about you, and as such you should consider raising your privacy settings so that “Only Friends” can see your photos. If your privacy is set to “Friends of Friends” or “Public”, people unknown to you will still be able to see your data.