It’s time to change your Facebook settings again. This time? Your profile.
Good ol’ Zuck, in an effort “to encourage users to be more liberal in sharing their data and online activity,” is going to be sharing your home address and phone number(s) with external sites.
Yes, you read that correctly.
Your phone number and address soon will not be private on Facebook, allowing them to share with the outside world, including those people who love to steal other’s identities.
I know. I know. Some of you are going to say that information is already publicly available. But how many of us are on do not call lists? How many of us don’t publish our home addresses? We do this so people don’t know how to find us unless they actually know us. (more…)