The feature lets families sharing iPads give each person an account that saves personalized settings and account information including from Facebook and Twitter.

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Unless you wrestled with a set of complicated settings, vastly more of your information possibly including your name, your gender, your photograph, your list of friends would be made public by default.

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Look in your account and privacy settings, and you see a lot of information on social ads and Sponsored Stories, including the possibility that you can appear in them.

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The settlement requires Facebook to take several steps to make sure it lives up to its promises in the future, including by giving consumers clear and prominent notice and obtaining their express consent before sharing their information beyond their privacy settings, by maintaining a comprehensive privacy program to protect consumers' information, and by obtaining biennial privacy audits from an independent third party.

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