{"id":72284,"date":"2014-09-04T19:48:21","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T17:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=72284"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:29:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:29:52","slug":"facebook-privacy-checkup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/facebook-privacy-checkup\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Privacy Checkup helps you understand who sees your posts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new privacy tool from Facebook called <strong>Privacy Checkup<\/strong> aims to help you understand who you&#8217;re sharing to. Facebook <a title=\"Facebook kills public sharing default, creates tool to audit privacy settings\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/facebook-kills-public-sharing-default\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">experimented with the feature<\/a> back in May but now it&#8217;s ready for prime time.<\/p>\n<p>To check if you have the new Privacy Checkup feature, head over to Facebook and look for the <strong>lock icon<\/strong> at the top, next to the Notifications button. You&#8217;ll see a cute <strong>blue dinosaur<\/strong> if you have the feature.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of Brightcove Player --><\/p>\n<div>\nDefault player\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\nBy use of this code snippet, I agree to the Brightcove Publisher T and C \nfound at https:\/\/accounts.brightcove.com\/en\/terms-and-conditions\/. \n--><\/p>\n<p><object><\/object><\/p>\n<p><!-- \nThis script tag will cause the Brightcove Players defined above it to be created as soon\nas the line is read by the browser. If you wish to have the player instantiated only after\nthe rest of the HTML is processed and the page load is complete, remove the line.\n--><br \/>\nbrightcove.createExperiences();<\/p>\n<p><!-- End of Brightcove Player --><\/p>\n<p>Privacy Checkup will walk you through your <strong>default sharing settings<\/strong> as well as walk you through every app that has access to your Facebook account. I found a lot of old applications I&#8217;m no longer using so I removed them. For the apps you want to keep, you can choose which friends to share with or you can share only to yourself.<\/p>\n<p>This is a great tool to understand the basics of privacy settings, which Facebook hasn&#8217;t made the most obvious in the past. Facebook has a reputation of being creepy but Privacy Checkup is a good step toward getting users to understand how their sharing settings work.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a title=\"Facebook Newsroom\" href=\"http:\/\/newsroom.fb.com\/news\/2014\/09\/privacy-checkup-is-now-rolling-out\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><em>Follow Lewis on Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lewisleong\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@lewisleong<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Related Stories<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"FBI, CIA, use the same software as hackers to access iCloud accounts\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/fbi-cia-hackers-all-use-the-same-software-to-access-icloud-accounts\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FBI, CIA, use the same software as hackers to access iCloud accounts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Hole found in Apple's two-step verification system with iCloud Control Panel\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/hole-found-in-apples-two-step-verification-system-with-icloud-control-panel\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hole found in Apple&#8217;s two-step verification system with iCloud Control Panel<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"What you need to know about syncing photos in iCloud\" href=\"http:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/what-you-need-to-know-about-syncing-photos-in-icloud\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">What you need to know about syncing photos in iCloud<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Tox aims to be an open source and secure alternative to Skype\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/tox-aims-to-be-an-open-source-and-secure-alternative-to-skype\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tox aims to be an open source and secure alternative to Skype<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new privacy tool from Facebook called Privacy Checkup aims to help you understand who you&#8217;re sharing to. Facebook experimented with the feature back in May but now it&#8217;s ready for prime time. To check if you have the new Privacy Checkup feature, head over to Facebook and look for the lock icon at the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/facebook-privacy-checkup\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Facebook Privacy Checkup helps you understand who sees your posts&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2033,"featured_media":72286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[2441],"tags":[2353],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-72284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-how-to","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionfacebook"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2033"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330218,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72284\/revisions\/330218"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72284"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=72284"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=72284"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=72284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}