Facebook offers some privacy settings that let you control your appearance in videos and photos on a per-album/per-video basis and those related to photos and videos in which you’re tagged. The interaction between your friends’ Tagged Photos privacy settings and your Album Settings can sometimes be a bit confusing.
Album and video privacy
Each time you create an album or add a video to Facebook, you can use the Privacy drop-down menu to select who can see it. These options are as follows:
Public or Everyone: This setting means that anyone can see the album. It doesn’t necessarily mean that everyone will see the album, though. Facebook doesn’t generally display your content to people who are not your friends. But if, for example, someone you didn’t know searched for you and went to your Profile, they would be able to see that album.
Only Friends: Only confirmed friends can see the photos or videos when you have this setting.
Custom: Custom privacy settings can be as closed or as open as you want. You may decide that you want to share an album only with the people who were at a particular Event, which you can do with a custom setting.
Another way to control who sees an album or video is to share it through Groups. So, for example, a video of your kids playing might be of interest only to people in your family. If you have a group for your family, you can share it from the Publisher on the Group wall, and then only people in the group will be able to see it.
By default, when you start using Facebook, albums and videos you add are visible to everyone. If you aren't comfortable with this, remember to adjust your privacy settings accordingly when you add new photos and video. You can also go to the Privacy page and change the setting for “Your Status, Photos, and Posts” to a more comfortable setting.
Privacy settings for photos and videos of yourself
The beauty of creating albums on Facebook is that it builds a giant cross-listed spreadsheet of information about your photos — who is in what photos, where those photos were taken, and so on. You’re cross-listed in photos that you own and in photos that you don’t own. However, you may want more control over these tags and who can see them. To control this, go to the Privacy Settings page from the Account menu and click Edit Settings next to the How Tags Work section. This expands a pop-up window. The settings to pay attention to in the context of photos and videos are Profile Review and Profile Visibility.
Turning on Profile Review allows you to review all the tags people add of you before those photos, videos, and other posts are actually added to your Profile. You can reject tags for photos you don’t like or don’t want to be associated with. Remember, just because you reject a tag doesn’t mean the photo won’t be added to Facebook; it just means you won’t be officially marked as in it. If you really don’t want a specific photo or video on Facebook, contact the friend who uploaded the content and ask them to take it down.
Profile Visibility controls who can see the content you’re tagged in after you’ve approved the tags. In other words, just because you’ve approved a tag, it doesn’t mean you want random people able to see those photos and videos. Most people keep Profile Visibility for tags set to Friends of Friends, but if you’re more shy, Friends is a good setting for this.
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Source:http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/how-to-protect-your-privacy-in-facebook-photos-and.html
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