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Facebook Caves To Privacy Protests Over Beacon
jcatcw writes "After weeks of privacy protests over its advertising system, Facebook's CEO announced that users now can turn the system off completely. CEO Zuckerberg said 'We simply did a bad job with this release.' Jeff Chester, executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy, called the announcement from Zuckerberg 'a step in the right direction.'"
Yea, if they were a public service, not only would they not care about your privacy, they would be able to use illegal wiretaps to get personal information for usage of these silly ads.
It amazes me when people think the government is there to protect and serve them. Nah, not knocking the govt but it is run by the same people you can't stand, who make poor decisions for even worse reasons, who don't pick up their dog's poop, cut you off, don't open doors for women, etc... and it's the same type of people who through group thinking put them in office. Worse still, the govt has no bottom line so they effectively "Can't Go Out Of Business" meaning that they don't even have to worry about themselves, they can just go on... so at least the company/corp/whatever is looking out for someone- even if it is numero-uno.