Facebook Privacy II.
Again! A Facebook privacy update forces users to readjust settings unless everyone shall have access; http://j.mp/617tEl
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Gerrit Eicker
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Gerrit Eicker 08:00 on 10. December 2009 Permalink |
RWW: “Facebook announced this morning that its 350 million users will be prompted to make their status messages and shared content publicly visible to the world at large and search engines. It’s a move we expected but the language used in the announcement is near Orwellian. The company says the move is all about helping users protect their privacy and connect with other people, but the new default option is to change from ‘old settings’ to becoming visible to ‘everyone.’ – This is not what Facebook users signed up for. It’s not about privacy at all, it’s about increasing traffic and the visibility of activity on the site. … Facebook confirmed to us in a press call earlier this year that the company does in fact want users to post more publicly and we expected a site-wide call for users to loosen privacy restrictions – but not like this. This announcement was couched in language of user control and privacy. – A much more honest approach to privacy would be to encourage users to create lists of contacts and encourage them to select which list any update was visible to. Instead, that’s greatly underemphasized.”
NYT: “One big question today is whether Facebook is implicitly guiding people toward relaxing their privacy settings. Barry Schnitt, a Facebook spokesman, said the company’s default recommendations on items like the posts they create, their religious affiliation and birthday are simply based on their previous privacy options. – But in a blog post on the site of the ACLU of Northern California, Nicole Ozer, its civil liberties director, wrote that most users will see recommended settings that make information less, not more, protected.”
Reuters: “Facebook spokesman Barry Schnitt said users could simply opt to leave the city and gender fields blank if they did not want the information seen by their non-friends on Facebook. … ‘Any suggestion that we’re trying to trick them into something would work against any goal that we have,’ said Schnitt. – He said that Facebook was recommending that posts be viewable to everyone because such sharing of information is consistent with ‘the way the world is moving.’”
TC: “The Facebook Privacy Fiasco Begins … Facebook is giving up its reputation as a ‘private’ social network – where the default is to restrict access to everything that is shared – in favor of something that can challenge Twitter head on. … Facebook is forcing users to choose their new privacy options to promote the Everyone update, and to clear itself of any potential wrongdoing going forward. If there is significant backlash against the social network, it can claim that users willingly made the choice to share their information with everyone.”
Guardian: “Facebook has outraged civil liberties campaigners after introducing new privacy settings that could dramatically increase the amount of personal information people expose online. – Privacy groups including the American Civil Liberties Union railed against the changes to the world’s largest social network yesterday, calling the developments ‘flawed’ and ‘worrisome’.”
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