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Facebook caves in to privacy pressures
CAVING IN to widespread criticism over its lack of privacy, Facebook has announced changes to its website and admitted that it did have a meeting about the hot topic, despite having denied it to The INQUIRER.
Users will now be able to approve the devices they normally use to log in and will be notified when the account is accessed from an unapproved device, according to the social notworking site's blog.
Facebook's blog post said, "We're confident that these new tools and systems will do a lot to prevent unauthorized logins and the nuisance they can cause."
Although confident of its tools, the outfit apparently was not confident enough to speak about its rumoured 'all-hands' privacy meeting, telling The INQUIRER that there was no such meeting.
Other news media have since reported that the company has admitted that such a meeting did take place.
In a related statement, Facebook said it has abided by European Union rules and "completely redesigned [its] Safety Center with new resources designed to inform parents, educators, teens, and members of the law enforcement community about Facebook's tools for staying safe."
Despite earlier having rejected proposals from the EU's Article 29 Working Party on data protection, Facebook's said, "[we] used the European Union's Safer Social Networking Principles, a set of recommended best practices adopted by the social networking industry in consultation with the European Commission, to inform the new design." µ
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One would do well to consider that the TSA goons at the airport can and do access facebook when a "person of interest" attempts to re-enter the country from foreign travel. What you post on facebook, or anywhere on the internet, can and will be used against you.
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I'm not sure what measures to prevent hacking an hijacking your account have to do with the privacy issues raised in regards to facebook, seems to me that privacy and security are 2 things.
@Dan stay strong, you were right that people bitch a lot in this case when they don't even know the issue or simply didn't read the damn EULA they agreed too, although it is true that they (like google before) changed it and pushed it too far from what I understand, still, the idea of facebook is to publicly share a profile so people should not treat it as something else then bitch when the creators (still) see it as what they basically designed it to be.
@fry get real and type arse when you mean arse.
facebook doesn't gather or sell anymore info than any other social site you are on. if you are on the internet and somehow think your information is secure please slap yourself in the face.
when did everyone start thinking they were SO important that anyone gives two damns what their top 5 things is, or what soda they like best.
if you REALLY want to keep every shred of every detail private, disconnect your machine from the net. the only TRULY safe machine is an unplugged one.
I agree with you. What Dan is missing is that years ago FaceBook had a different Privacy statement and people opted in. Then slowly bit by bit he kept moving the goal posts on the rules on privacy, in the mean time people that realized what was going on with the change in Privacy rules opted out and canceled their account to find out their is no canceling for six months, and everything the Zuck owns. You try that in real life with your friends and you'll get the shit kicked out of you.
A better name would be "Facebook Pretends to Cave On Privacy". They are definitely NOT backing down in the least! They are using a smokescreen, changing how you log in, not your private profile data that they share. In fact, these changes are arguably worse, because now they're explicitly offering to hold long-term the data about the computer that you log in on.
Whatever is in Facebook's terms isn't the whole of any agreement. There's still common law and common sense -- despite whatever "court" rulings you want to cite -- which give a reasonable expectation of privacy and not being exploited sheerly as an economic unit. That's just plain fraud, more since those terms can be changed at a whim without notice. -- SOCIETY IS NOT JUST FOR BENEFIT OF CORPORATIONS.
Besides, Facebook has *changed* the terms, so you're clearly in the wrong on the details.
And you hardly support Facebook by revealing your contempt for its users.
so by your reasoning, downloading music is just like facebook "borrowing" my data and pictures?? It's all good since I have a postit attached to my monitor making it all legal.
i never have had a facebook account - i instantly saw the pathetic waste product for what it is.
so shove your comment up you own ar$3!
freak
At what point did Facebook not say they were going to use your info? Maybe you should read the terms and conditions before posting sob stories about how your ugly girlfriend dumped you last night.
Want privacy? Run your own website/blog. Want to use a notworking site? Then pay the price of admission.
the best solution is for all users to close their accounts with a direct message to the organisers to "shove it up your ar$3!"
selling people's privacy for personal profit should be punishable by public flogging and a long spell in the stocks (preferably located by a locked public toilet)