Facebook, the second most viewed website in the United States, has increasingly seen criticism for the way it handles privacy matters and today the new setting changes have been deemed "unacceptable" by EU data protection authorities.
The authority, the Article 29 Working Party wrote in a letter that the new changes are "detrimental to the user."
The default settings, changed in the ... [ read the full article ]
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Originally posted by philixir: If you are overly concerned about your privacy, then you shouldn't be on Facebook in the first place. Nuff Said.
Umm, no. If you are overly concerned about your privacy, you shouldn't have a blog/website. One of the things with Facebook is that it's supposed to allow for a degree of privacy for those that would prefer to keep everything between family and immediate friends. Facebook is not solely a vanity Myspace page. It allows people to privately socialize in addition to open, public socialization. Just because you sign up for Facebook doesn't mean you're an 'everyone-look-at-me' person.
EDIT- though with all the annoying games on there, it doesn't mean you're necessarily mature either...
Facebook will drive itself into the ground if it continues this path. They will become the next commonly used Myspace quote "what? People still use that?"
Yep, I wouldn't want to be in facebook if all confidential info about myself is made public. Wasn't there a choice to give this info to only whomever I chose to give it before signing up?
I'm on facebook and people can do a google search and find my page but all my wall posts are protected not too sure about my personal info not alot on there really.if someone really wants to find out personal information about you they will find out anyway.I've even seen websites offering to find out everything about a person for a fee.if you dont want any personally information about you being know dont have a passport,dont get a drivers licence,dont get government benefits or free healthcare,dont register for anything and buy everything in cash.its the only way to be sure no one can find out anything about you.
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