U.S. economic data due for release Friday includes the USDA planting intentions and quarterly grain stocks report, personal income and outlays, the ISM Chicago business survey and the University of Michigan consumer sentiment survey.

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If you have intentions of allowing a friend or family member to have access to that data, you can set up the service to notify up to 10 people that your account has been inactive for the time you've specified.

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This adds to two Facebook-related security holes that surfaced last week, in which there were likely no malicious intentions but which didn't help already-concerned Facebook users from wondering just how safe their data is on a site that repeatedly modifies its privacy policies and has had a well-documented recent history of security flaws and phishing scams.

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