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September 25, 2012 09:52 pm GMT

Privacy Tip: Assume Everything Online Could Be Public

weiner-twitter-enhanced-buzzfeedThe Internet collectively freaked out yesterday after rumors swirled that Facebook accidently began posting private messages to users' public timelines, exposing all the nasty, salacious, and incriminating messages that were thought to be securely hidden from view. Not everyone had cause to worry, however, because they follow a simple rule for avoiding inevitable privacy mishaps: assume everything put online could somehow become public. No website is unhackable and no privacy setting is idiot-proof, so even the most savvy netizens will find some of their supposedly private information revealed. Though prudence may be inconvenient, here's the case for why you should just assume everything online could be public and how to still be productive with the policy.

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