Prevent Mis-Use of Your Facebook Photos with McAfee Social Protection

San Francisco: On the second day of Intel's annual conference, the IDF 2012, the company's Sr. VP and GM of the Software Services Group, Renee James announced in her keynote address, a beta version of McAfee Social Protection. The application is supposed to prevent capturing or copying of the digital photos users upload to their Facebook accounts.

One of the biggest security risks on Facebook today is mis-use of all the digital content being uploaded by users on their accounts. So if you upload a photo of yourself or your loved ones, it could be picked up by anybody in your friends list and mis-used.

The Social Protection app from McAfee prevents that from happening. The moment a user does a right click on the photo and tries to copy the photo, a message pops up saying that the photo is protected by McAfee Social Protection. The application prevents the photos from being downloaded, copied, printed, or even captured using the “Print Screen” key.

A free public beta of the app is available for download from McAfee's Facebook page. You can download it as a Facebook App or a browser plug-in if you're running Internet Explorer 8 or higher or Firefox 8.0 or higher. It's not currently available for other popular web browsers like Google Chrome, Opera, etc.

On a lighter note, the technical assistant who demonstrated the app on stage at the IDF went as far as to say that the app is “like a condom for your digital life”!