By: Jeffrey Burt, eWeek
The McAfee Social Protection plug-in, developed with Intel, lets Facebook users decide which friends can see photos, which can be copied, printed or shared. McAfee and parent company Intel are teaming up to create an app that will help Facebook users to better protect photos they put on their pages, ensuring that they can be seen only by specially selected friends. Essentially, the app, called McAfee Social Protection, will act as a digital rights management (DRM) tool for Facebook users’ photos, according to media reports following a demonstration Aug. 2 at McAfee’s Santa Clara, Calif., headquarters. McAfee Social Protection, which will be available as a free public beta this fall, will come as a browser plug-in. Once available, users will be able to download and install it on systems running Internet Explorer 8 or higher, Firefox 8 and higher and Google Chrome for PCs. Versions for Apple’s iOS and Mac OS X operating system, and Google’s Android, reportedly will be coming out later in the year.
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/McAfee-Facebook-Tool-Protects-Users-Photos-888220/?kc=rss
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