Though social media platforms may not always make this easy, it’s worth taking the time to review your privacy and security settings from time to time. Data is currency, after all.

You should also consider using Block Party, which is the most user-friendly tool I’ve seen for locking down your social media privacy settings. In the end, privacy settings can only go so far.

3 social media safety settings to check. ... Often, account privacy and other limits turn on by default if your child accurately reports their age during sign-up.

Tips on privacy settings for social media. Some companies will ask permission at every point where they collect user data — including during sign-up, registration, account creation, login ...

With the pervasiveness of Facebook and other social media, people have to make sure they know who is viewing their information and be careful who they share posts with. Daya Sharma, professor of ...

While social media is a seemingly permanent fixture in the practice of law, and can have many benefits in prosecuting and ...

Knowing your social media privacy settings can certainly keep your data safer, but a number of apps and services can help out, too. Today we look at two types of social-networking security apps.

Applicants will be required to make their social media profiles “public” and will be screened for “hostile attitudes” toward ...

Facebook is putting privacy settings users may have forgotten about or failed to opt out of front and center, as the start of the General Data Protection Regulation nears.

Social media companies would be required to set the default privacy settings for accounts owned by children to the highest levels and all digital devices sold in Australia would have to contain ...