If you use Facebook, then you WILL be interested in this, their latest potential privacy invasion.
Facebook has agreed to let 3rd party advertisers use your photos in their ads without asking your permission. If you don’t think that they can do that, then check the small print you signed up to when you joined.
However, all is not lost.
TO OPT OUT of this practice:
Click on ‘Settings’ (in top navigation bar, next to logout).
Drop down to ‘Privacy Settings’
select ‘News Feed and Wall’
select the tab for ‘Facebook Ads’
select ‘No one’ in the drop down.
Save changes.
PASS THIS ON.
On the other hand, you could always do as the BCS suggests, “…bombard Facebook Chief Execs for knowledge of with whom the pictures are being shared, where the potential advert might be placed and demand a fee…”
You can read the full story on the BCS website.
Tags: photos
