Wife exposes chief spy's personal life on Facebook [CNET News]
If you're the wife of the head of British spy agency MI6, it might be time to learn how to use Facebook's privacy features. In news from that country, it has been revealed that Lady Shelley Sawers, the wife of Sir John Sawers, who is the newest head of MI6, has posted personal information on her unprotected Facebook page. On the page, Sawers revealed the location of the family's apartment in London and posted several pictures from the family's latest vacation. The postings were available to any member of Facebook's London network - allowing several million Facebook users to view the information.
Though Lady Sawers Facebook page is no longer available to the general public, it's a good lesson to all Facebook users that the site's privacy features are useful in making sure you're only revealing the information you want to reveal about yourself to strangers. I consider myself fairly knowledgable when it comes to online technology, especially for a 50-something-year-old. Setting up the Facebook privacy options is no picnic, believe me. Recently, Facebook announced that it is upgrading several of its privacy features to make the more user-friendly. The details of that announcement is available here. For more information about enabling Facebook's privacy settings, check out this article.
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