Saturday, May 8, 2010

Understanding Facebook's Privacy Aftershocks

With recent Facebook updates, some users are concerned something bigger might happen with public access to information.

With recent Facebook updates, some users are concerned something bigger might happen with public access to information.

...On Wednesday, one small but alarming security hole was found in Facebook; the company attributed it to an engineering bug, and patched it.

On Thursday, PC World detailed that Facebook was "secretly adding" third-party applications to user profiles, something that the company once again attributed to a bug and said that it had been fixed. Investor-pundit Paul Kedrosky and fanboy idol Peter Rojas, former editor of Engadget and co-founder of GDGT, both announced on Thursday that they were deactivating their Facebook profiles.

Basically, Facebook is the Pacific Ring of the Web. In its six-year history the company has radically changed its product by implementing one small, step-by-step move after another...

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