New Facebook Settings Cause Uproar
Before Facebook rolled out its new privacy settings, Mark Zuckenberg promised that it would “create a simpler model for privacy control” and allow users to more control over access to their online profiles. Yet the general consensus is that the new model actually makes it harder to protect your privacy.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has even said the new model is to push Facebook users to share even more personal information with the general public. Much of the information you could previously control access to, such as your list of friends and the pages you are a fan of, is now considered “publicly available information” (PAI).
Even worse, there is now no way to limit the access of Facebook app makers to your PAI. Gone is the option to “not share any information about me through the Facebook API”.
The controversy has made more people aware that, at its core, Facebook is a business that’s all about helping people share their personal data with others, and hopes to earn money off this exposure-driven activity.
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