# Facebook privacy website
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-privacy-website/539826
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [May 17, 2010, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-privacy-website/539826 "2010-05-17T22:26:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2010, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-privacy-website/539826/1 "2010-05-17T22:26:15Z")
I found this today, linked from one of my FB friends. If you’re concerned about the privacy of your FB page and aren’t sure you’ve caught everything, this might be a good thing to try:
[http://www.reclaimprivacy.org/facebook](http://www.reclaimprivacy.org/facebook)
I was pleased that it reported “good” for all the options on mine.
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### Author:  [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2010, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-privacy-website/539826/2 "2010-05-17T22:55:39Z")
I’m locked down tight too 🙂 , plus, I barely use my FB account
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### Author:  [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2010, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-privacy-website/539826/3 "2010-05-17T22:55:42Z")
Is this thing really trustworthy? I’m wary of anything that purports to ‘scan my settings.’
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### Author:  [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2010, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-privacy-website/539826/4 "2010-05-17T22:59:25Z")
There’s also [Diaspora](http://www.joindiaspora.com/project.html).
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### Author:  [@xash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xash)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2010, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-privacy-website/539826/5 "2010-05-18T00:11:50Z")
> [@Autolycus](#):
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> Is this thing really trustworthy? I’m wary of anything that purports to ‘scan my settings.’
It was vetted by hackernews:
[http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1354731](http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1354731)
> [@](#):
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> In the spirit of due diligence I started up a debugging proxy before I ran the scanner, so that I’d be able to tell if it collected any info.
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> Happily, it seems the only requests made are to fetch the javascript that does the scanning, and to various Facebook pages and associated content such as Facebook’s CDN and “channels.”
ETA: And the complete source code is open:
[http://github.com/mjpizz/reclaimprivacy/blob/master/javascripts/privacyscanner.js#L6242](http://github.com/mjpizz/reclaimprivacy/blob/master/javascripts/privacyscanner.js#L6242)
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### Author:  [@Ann\_Onimous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Onimous)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2010, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-privacy-website/539826/6 "2010-05-18T00:20:37Z")
Facebook Security for Dummies. Thanks! 😃
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### Author:  [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2010, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-privacy-website/539826/7 "2010-05-18T01:34:33Z")
Another site - [How to Put Facebook on a Privacy Lockdown](http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-lock-down-your-facebook-profile-2010-5)
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### Author:  [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2010, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-privacy-website/539826/8 "2010-05-18T04:51:14Z")
Why the heck does it want me to remove the ability for people to add me as a friend? That’s kinda the point of Facebook. I also therefore want them to see my friends and my about me, so they have a clue who I am, so they know if they want to add me.
Oh, and if I had a website, I’m pretty sure I’d want it published where people could see it. Why wouldn’t I?
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### Author:  [@BaneSidhe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaneSidhe)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2010, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-privacy-website/539826/9 "2010-05-18T05:04:43Z")
Thanks for the link, **Duckster**. Mine’s on lockdown now.
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### Author:  [@Cyberhwk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyberhwk)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2010, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-privacy-website/539826/10 "2010-05-18T06:33:18Z")
> [@BigT](#):
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> Why the heck does it want me to remove the ability for people to add me as a friend? That’s kinda the point of Facebook. I also therefore want them to see my friends and my about me, so they have a clue who I am, so they know if they want to add me.
Yeah, I noticed that too. :smack: