Facebook Privacy Scanner is launched

also, a lesson: enable capacity billing on your AppEngine account ahead of time, you never know when you're going to wake up in the morning and find out somebody launched your project :)

luckily AppEngine made it really easy to spring back, so it should be fine now (hopefully donations cover costs)

Brillant tool and quite easy to use.

My only suggestion is the "auto-fix" button, can you give me a preview as to what settings your application is going to change?

This is great, but two things that I would really like to know about my privacy on Facebook are 1) which photos I'm tagged in that are publicly visible (even if I have elected not to display tagged photos to friends), and 2) which wall posts are accidentally tagged as everyone.

Those photos are indexed by Google and contain my name, even if I have chosen not to share photos I've been tagged in. I want to be able to see the list of public ones so that I can manually untag myself. Similarly, it would take too long for someone with thousands of wall posts to find the ones that might have accidentally been set to "everyone".

I think that it might have been better to wait until these were included before officially launching the tool, because the photo issue affects almost everyone on Facebook, and if people use this tool and everything checks out ok, they probably won't return again if you update it later.

I see friends' settings reported as insecure, and then asked the application to fix that, but those settings are still reported as insecure. Some more documentation on what that's about would be interesting to me.

Thanks for the great external links on your site. A very interesting application that I immediately told all my Facebook friends about.

The scanner appears unable to change those settings. If you click the link (left of "fix this") you will be able to change the settings manually.