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Facebook Founder's Pictures Go Public
jamie passes along a Newsfactor piece that begins "In a not-uncommon development for the social-networking leader, Facebook's recently released privacy controls are leaving the company a bit red-faced. As a result of a new policy that by default makes users' profiles, photos, and friends lists available on the Web, almost 300 personal photos of founder Mark Zuckerberg became publicly available, a development that had gossip sites like Gawker yukking it up."
It's a b****.
Funny may not give karma, but +5 Informative never made anyone snort coffee out their nose.
I am really worried about the fact that Facebook has access to data such as people's real name (that's the point of it, right?), IP addresses, friends' lists, and other info. It worries me enough on a personnal level, so I'll never register, but what worries me more is on the macro level. Even if such company did not want to 'do evil' with this tremendous amount of info, I feel that the power they posess is ultimately too big to be own by a for-profit company.
"For those wondering, I set most of my content on my personal Facebook page to be open so people could see it. I set some of my content to be more private, but I didn't see a need to limit visibility of pics with my friends, family or my teddy bear :)"
I have spent the best part of the week trying to adjust my facebook profile to some level of discreteness that I am comfortable with. Have been very unhappy with the "all or nothing" choices, and have started just simply deleting content. I feel a little better, because now I am sure the settings will get some fine-tuning.
Just for fun:
http://www.facebook.com/pertelote
And this is after I have locked down as much as I can without insulting my family and classmates.
Hey, if he has nothing to hide then this shouldn't be a problem. Only people with criminal activity need privacy, right?
I clicked the link in the summary and I didn't find any pictures. So after a quick search I found this http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-ceo-mark-zuckerbergs-private-photos-2009-12#with-girlfriend-priscilla-chan-from-her-album-moments-have-you-seen-a-sweeter-thing-today-probably-not-1 Enjoy!
takes on another outfit.
Fuck systemd. Fuck Redhat. Fuck Soylent, too. Wait, scratch the last one.
He definitely should have left them public. He should've made it look as though he meant to do that and left them on. Somebody will have downloaded them all anyway.
"For those wondering, I set most of my content on my personal Facebook page to be open so people could see it. I set some of my content to be more private, but I didn't see a need to limit visibility of pics with my friends, family or my teddy bear :)"
http://www.facebook.com/markzuckerberg
I think it says a lot about his personality that he posted to his newsfeed that he meant to post the pictures, then somehow the pictures mysteriously disappear. Kind of scary with an ego that he can't admit to a mistake that small. If there ever was a security breach would facebook ever admit to it?
Dont put your shit in there, and, Fuck Facebook.
i really don't.
The new privacy dialog game up when I logged in and i read it and then checked each option to keep things the same as before... it's not rocket science. One's inability to read and think is not Facebook's fault.
I vaguely remember automatically being "friends" with mark zuckerberg when I originally signed up for facebook eons ago... (This was before "fans" existed...).
In any case, I wouldn't think someone like mark would want most of his pictures private.. it is his site after all!
Note to self: think before clicking links to private pictures of nerd.
This self-serving policy change is certainly a strong warning for everyone to avoid facebook and others. Having such a stupid CEO should be the coup de grace for facebook.
Not unless they were legally liable for it and also had a decent chance of being sued at that. But that's pretty much standard operating procedure for any IT company.
I would not be surprised if PR suggested he take the pictures down just because people THOUGHT there was a security problem because some of them were available to the public. I would also not be surprised if there was a problem and he lied to make Facebook look better so as to try to keep their reputation (read: investors) looking good. I'm not sure we can really surmise much about his ego from this though given that his actions may largely be pressured by what Facebook needs than what his ego desires.
Well, that's par for the course, isn't it? Naive "I have nothing to hide" never lasts long when the attention comes. Even people who are in the showbiz don't want everybody rummaging around in their private lives. Can you imagine how Zuckerberg's friends reacted to that kind of scrutiny?
What kind of self-absorbed douchebag has 300 photos of himself on his profile?
Banks won't admit to it, when they have a breach. I doubt Facebook will.
[name] dislikes facebook's new privacy alert that by default would have made my facebook LESS secure... *rolleyes*
Today's status update is a link to this article with my comment "Oh, the irony!"
sigs... don't talk to me about sigs....
Facebook might be the social network giant but it's a really pointless site. It's more about showing off how many friends you have who most of you probably haven't met.
Joining groups who's point is to see how many people join the group and most of all showing off your pics and status in life.
I do have a facebook account but I haven't updated it in 3 years which is about when I made it. If you want to keep your life private don't put it on the web. How hard is it to just pass a USB key or pass a memory key and let your real friends see your pics / status or anything else you feel like sharing.
Facebook might be the social giant of the internet but it's also a giant waste of time and resources. Don't complain that your pics get stolen, released or broadcast. If you really want to keep your info private then don't put it on the net.
Any system which defaults to "share everything" is a fail. You should never have to opt-out, only opt-in, to release data. Otherwise it's way too easy to screw up and show something private to everyone (as in this example).
It's really hard because there is no way to be able to easily see what other people can see. If you don't sign into an account then Facebook doesn't let you see anything, no matter what the user's settings are. Since you can't have multiple accounts there is no way to check your own profile as a random Facebook user to see what they can see about you.
Plus, why is Facebook slow as hell? That damn site annoys the crap out of me. Half the time I click on stuff and it never appears (like my own friend list). Reatarded site.
Where, having never been a member, the few public things I did sometimes read on there no longer display without javascript. That's quite pathetic.
Oh, the irony! :-)
Thank God I don't use FB (and never ever will).
As far as I can tell there are two options for privacy on Facebook
(1) Be 'searchable' which means some information about yourself should be included otherwise the search is useless
(2) Not be 'searchable'. Everything you have is private and between you and the friends you have
I have option (1) and I haven't had any problems with it yet.
Please tell me specifically what it is about Facebook that is violating your privacy?
I tend to think that Facebook is just gaming our privacy controls.
Once in a while they make an attempt to "enact new security provisions"... forcing users to, once again, update their security settings.
Eventually there will be enough dumb/careless users out there who can't and won't get it right, opening more users to the likes of advertisers and whatever else Facebook want our information for.
I guess the jackass didn't like his own company's privacy policy and is now getting special treatment. While the rest of us have our friend lists visible to the public, his is no longer visible!!!! Fill the jerk's inbox with complaints!
I love it when I read a story about another story that is all about photos, yet neither story contains or links to any.
or else!
Enuf info in public domain as it is - how much more candy do we retarded people need to "GIFT" to govt/business/stalkers....oh, and my ex now works at a hospital and has 4 kids
Thank you Facebook
He totally deserved it. He should take it as a message to STOP FUCKING WITH FACEBOOK!
You used to be able to exclude yourself from the system. Now you can't even opt out of the Facebook API, there is information that is accessible to 3rd party developers as long as your friends install an app. Used to be you could opt out of it though. After this whole debacle I ended up requesting deletion of my facebook account, which should be processed in 10 days.
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p0wned !
We all know that Facebook is afraid of Wave. Now why don't they behave like it?
That's a little counterintuitive, thanks for pointing that out.
I love that too! But I can't find the link to become a fan of things like this?
There's been no major hack and subsequent large data leak AFAIK, but Facebook has had countless vulnerabilities, one of which has gone unfixed that allows you to grab someone's private photos, messages and other private information that I discovered and reported over 2 years ago.
I gather many other people who have discovered and reported vulnerabilities have seen a similar story.
Kind of scary with an ego that he can't admit to a mistake that small.
Considering how much press this generates, it's not exactly a small mistake. This is akin to that guy who used to promote his identify theft prevention business by putting his social security number in his ads, and then eventually getting one or more loans taken out in his name. When much of Mark's business is involved with privacy, he certainly wants to do everything possible to make it appear that the privacy policy that his company sets also works for him, but apparently it doesn't. That's not something he wants to admit.
"Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
as of now.
Hopefully Google will buy FB so we don't have to worry about someone using the data for evil.
More and more it seems like this guy fell ass backward into money and nothing more.