privacy settings

collocation in English

meaningsofprivacyandsetting

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privacy
noun[U]
uk
/ˈprɪv.ə.si/us
/ˈpraɪ.və.si/
someone's right to keep their personal matters and ...
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setting
noun
uk
/ˈset.ɪŋ/us
/ˈset̬.ɪŋ/
the position of a house or ...
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(Definition ofprivacyandsettingfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofprivacy settings

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All users have extensive controls over their own profiles and privacy settings.
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There's no corporation behind it and there are extensive privacy settings.
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Also, information that shows on a user's profile such as birthday, religious views, and relationship status can be removed via the privacy settings.
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New privacy settings are available to the user.
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Users can control who sees other information they have shared, as well as who can find them in searches, through their privacy settings.
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The data collected was not hidden by the user's privacy settings.
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In the mean time, they advised users to change their privacy settings.
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There are so many sources of data storage that it is challenging for web browsers to present sensible privacy settings.
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Due to privacy settings and other issues, not all social media conversation can be found and reported by monitoring tools.
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Privacy settings are set at a high level by default.
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Many websites give options to suppress the amount of personal information revealed through the customisation of privacy settings.
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Uploadr allows drag-and-drop batch uploading of photos, the setting of tags and descriptions for each batch, and the editing of privacy settings.
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It also allows students to manage their own privacy settings, and often work with the privacy settings they have already established as registered users.
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They also require users to have a minimum level of technical knowledge to configure their own browser privacy settings.
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Most users are not aware that they can modify the privacy settings and unless they modify them, their information is open to the public.
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They combined this with a rollout of new privacy settings.
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Privacy settings bring up the question of how privacy settings and terms of service affect the expectation of privacy in social media.
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Friendica has an emphasis on extensive privacy settings and easy server installation.
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