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2013-05-15T09:38:42-06:00

Public Creep: Privacy Loss

Facebook has been slowly pushing us to share more and more information in public. View the animation by Matt McKeon, "The Evolution of Privacy on Facebook" (going to 2010) to see exactly how this has taken place. Here's what Facebook shared in 2005:

Google hasn't been innocent in this movement away from privacy either. In 2012, Google merged the privacy settings on all its apps: Google Streamlines Privacy.