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Facebook’s Privacy Dinosaur Wants to Make Sure You’re Not Oversharing

Posted on March 27, 2014 by pogowasright.org

Will Oremus reports:

…  a new privacy measure, which Facebook is testing this week on a subset of users, suggests the company might not be quite as shameless or rapacious as many of its users—and the media—tend to assume. It’s called “privacy checkup,” and it takes the form of a pop-up box that appears one time per user, just as you’re about to post something publicly on your timeline.

Read more on Slate.

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