And not everyone thinks its such a bad thing to have less privacy online. Some users, like Robert Scoble, ap-plauded Facebooks new policies. I wish Facebook were MORE open!!! he wrote on his blog. I havent cared about privacy for years.
But others are saying that this isnt what they signed up for when they joined. The privacy issue has already landed Facebook in hot water in Washington. In April, Sen. Charles Schumer and two other senators called on Facebook to change its privacy policy. They also urged the Federal Trade Commission to set guidelines for social-networking sites. In May, a group of 15 online-privacy groups filed a formal complaint with the FTC accusing Facebook of unfair and deceptive trade practices. I think the senators rightly communicated that we had not been clear about what the new products were and how people could choose to use them or not to use them, Schrage concedes.
Losing a few people wont hurt Facebook, which has more than 400 million registered members, most of them oblivious to the debate over privacy. In fact, I suspect Facebook will end up being to this decade what Microsoft was to the 1990san ever-more-powerful company with tentacles that reach into everything. I also suspect that whatever Facebook has done so far to invade our privacy, its only the beginning. Which is why Im considering deactivating my account. Facebook is a handy site, but Im freaked by the idea that my information is in the hands of people I dont trust. That is too high a price to pay.
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