The protection of privacy sui social network it is a delicate issue and, even today, too often underestimated.
To provide a useful tool to consumers in this regard, it took action McAfee, the historic company that has been involved in online security for decades. In its product range McAfee+in fact, has decided to introduce a utility specifically designed to limit the risks related to privacy from a social media perspective.
We are talking about Social Privacy Manager, an instrument equipped with 100 different settings. Through these, the user can better manage the data that is transferred to platforms such as Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube e Google. In this regard, as McAfee said, further management settings will soon be available TikTok.
The tool is available on smartphones Android, iPhone, PC Windows e macOS.
With Social Privacy Manager McAfee also wants to combat identity theft
According to what the company itself stated, a tool of this type is now a concrete necessity for anyone approaching the internet.
Research carried out by McAfee, in fact, highlighted how the 62% of social network users in United Kingdom regularly shares content on social networks, but only the 43% adjusts privacy settings to limit platforms’ access to their data.
Those who are then interested in these settings, in 56% of cases defines them as difficult to find within social media and in any case difficult to understand once achieved.
She also expressed herself in this regard Roma MajumderSVP Product at McAfee, stating how Social Privacy Manager can offer the possibility of better managing the digital footprint of users on social networks, with full control of shared content.
The tool can also help counteract the identity theftan increasingly widespread crime online and which often sees social media as a “hunting ground” for cybercriminals.
In conjunction with the introduction of the aforementioned utility, the company has also made further improvements to the other McAfee+ tools, such as an update of McAfee Scam Protection per iOS.