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it's time for your yearly privacy checkup open up and say uh I'm Bridget Carey and this is you're seeing that update when's the last time you went through your privacy settings on Facebook I mean really look through your settings to see everything your friends can see and what apps have access to your profile you may be sharing more than you realize Facebook has a bad reputation for it's confusing settings so it's trying to win back your trust by giving you a privacy checkup within the next few weeks everyone's gonna see this little blue dinosaur pop up on their screen to make sure that you are okay with what information you're sharing publicly it's also redesigning a dashboard for apps it's going to show a clear list of all the apps that are connected to your Facebook account that way you can manage their permissions and for anyone who is brand new to Facebook the default status update will be set to be shared with just friends instead of the public which was the old default if Facebook is more transparent it could help the network avoid future headaches from lawsuits and government regulators Facebook has been taken to court multiple times over how it discloses personal information but don't forget Facebook makes money from advertisers based on your activity and what you share it wants to regain your trust so you feel better about sharing more Apple is dealing with its own type of data sharing headache it has to do with iMessage which is basically text messages sent between Apple devices it's this seamless feature it's part of the main text message application on the iPhone and some people are saying that they're not getting their text messages if they switch from an iPhone to an Android phone when they keep their same phone number now for some reason Apple servers still think the phone number belongs to an iPhone so the text gets stuck in some iMessage filter limbo never making it to the person's new Android phone now Apple was hit with a lawsuit last week over its negligence to address this issue but Apple could be closer to fixing it the company said in a statement to recode that it fixed a bug with its servers and that another fix is going to come out in a future software update meanwhile over at Apple's mortal enemy Samsung the company is changing its music services Samsung's retiring the music hub streaming service which is less than three years old it was kind of like Spotify except people actually use Spotify Samsung is telling music hub users to download and save all their songs and use up any credits before it closes on July 1st Samsung rather have folks use the new streaming service with the weird name you know it's called milk music that's your tech news update you can find more details on these stories at cnet.com from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey