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Angry Jesus writes:

Ubisoft has released a unique promotion for the video game, Watch Dogs point it at your facebook account and it will use the information there to build a dossier on you as if you were the target of an assassination plot. It includes things like expected daily schedule, likely passwords based on your birthday and friend's names, etc.

While the result might scare some people into being more cautious, it doesn't make much effort to educate people what they can do to protect themselves short of "don't use facebook" which is not really an option for most of the people who currently use facebook. At a minimum it ought to generate a list of things you can lock down using facebook's privacy settings. Can you suggest a comprehensive and up to date guide for where to go on facebook and what settings to change in order to improve privacy for the average facebook user?

1. "Angry Jesus" - http://soylentnews.org/~angry+jesus
2. "unique promotion" - http://digitalshadow.com/shadow.php
3. "to build a dossier on you" - https://www.yahoo.com/tech/heres-a-fun-way-to-check-your-horrifying-facebook-83422214650.html

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