Secure.me is a division of AVAST (the company behind Avast antivirus). Secure.me is an app that checks your Facebook profile for security to ensure you a safer experience with your social networks and apps. Secure.me works like antivirus for social networks and apps. It scans your posts and photos to identify if they pose any threat to your privacy. Secure.me informs you of potentially harmful content and malicious links on your profile and within your network of friends which means, in addition to your own Facebook profile, it can monitor your friends network too, to keep you safe and secure. Furthermore, you can also protect your children on Facebook (even if you don’t have a Facebook account), as secure.me offers protection for up to three profiles. Parents can keep an eye on the activities like outgoing and incoming messages, wall posts, and status updates. Its photo recognition technology watches for pictures with specific people in them, whether that person has been tagged or not, and can search across both the child’s photos as well as their network’s photos.
As many of the websites and apps are social these days and we use Facebook to connect to these sites/apps, for instance : Instagram, Spotify, Bit.ly and others, when we connect them they fetch our data from Facebook, we don’t actually know do they interfere with our privacy. This presents a risk, your online social profile becomes exposed. Secure.me has a browser extension "App Advisor", it informs the users about, which data an app uses, how the app is handling and managing their data and which information it shares on their Facebook profile and it can tell you exactly which apps you should be cautious of, before they become a threat to your privacy. Have peace of mind with Secure.me, it's free and available for iPhone, and Chrome, FireFox, and Safari browsers.