How to Protect Your Privacy Online

Lately Facebook came under fire for changing privacy settings and sharing user data with companies. There is even a new social network in the wings, Diaspora, ready to
go head-to-head with Facebook over privacy and user-data control. This
points to more than just Facebook messing up, however. This is a chronic
issue with social networking. We're putting our entire lives online. I
like to tell my friends that their lovely privacy controls won't keep
out the FBI. They won't even keep out a dedicated hacker. Witness the
Twitter hacker in France getting in to President Obama's Twitter profile
(he got off light, by the way).

So how do you protect yourself? Obviously I'm not going to advise that you quit social media. But I am going to suggest that you watch what you put online very carefully. Let's start with general tactics,
and if I get a good response to this post I'll go more in depth with
each popular social network.

1. Know what you are putting online and be consistent. For
instance, don't go around announcing your middle name if your middle
name is a security question for your bank....

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